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Inventory Forecasting Substitution

An assistant manager at a regional retail warehouse is updating the training manual for inventory forecasting. The manual uses three mathematical expressions where the variable xx represents the number of active delivery trucks:

  1. Warehouse space requirement: x2x^2
  2. Processing and logistics time: 4x{}4^x
  3. Daily fuel surcharge: 3x2+4x+1{}3x^2 + 4x + 1

To train a new employee on how to manually verify the spreadsheet outputs when there are exactly 3 active delivery trucks (x=3x = 3), the manager needs to write down the initial substitution step for each model. Recall and state the three expressions that result immediately after substituting 3 for xx in each formula, before performing any arithmetic operations or simplifications.

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