Homework Help: Math

Posted by T on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 12:47am.

jim owns a square piece of land with a side length of a meters. he extends his property by purchasing adjacent land so that the length is increased by 10 m and the width by 12 m. write an algebraic expression for the area of jim's extended property

Math - Reiny, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 3:52am
old property = lw
new property = (l+10)(w+12)

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