Homework Help: Algerbra

Posted by dillon on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 7:41pm.

At a large nursery, a border for a rectangular garden is being built. Designers want the border's length to be 5 ft greater than its width. A maximum of 180 ft of fencing is available for the border. Write and solve an inequality that describes possible widths of the garden.

Help appreaciated thanks.

Algerbra - Quidditch, Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 8:54pm
W=width
L=length
given:
L = W + 5
Maximum of 180 feet of fencing is available

So,
2L + 2W <= 180

Substitute the value for L and solve.
Algerbra - Anonymous, Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 10:12am
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Algerbra - pm square, Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 8:57pm
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Algerbra - Joshua, Friday, November 16, 2012 at 7:45pm
w=42.5

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