Homework Help: math

Posted by anonymous on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 8:58pm.

a rectangular plot of land has an area of 1050meters squared. its length exceeds its width by 5 meters. find the length of the plot.

let the width be x m
then the length is x+5 m

so x(x+5) = 1050

now you solve it and let me know what you got.

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