Can someone help me out

Use the matrix-column representation of the product to write each column of ab as a linear combination of the columns of a.

Aplot of land has been surveyed for a new housing development with borders ab, bc, dc, and da. the plot of land is a right trapezoid with a height of 60 feet and an opposite leg length of 65 feet

Hell . what are the solutions to `10x^2 - 38x - 8 = 0`? is this when i find the factors and use the numbers within the factors to determine the zeros? i hope that made sense lol