SOLUTION: A farmer has 70 meters of fencing and would like to use the fencing to create a rectangular garden where one of the sides of the garden is against the side of a barn. Let l repre

Question 1126379: A farmer has 70 meters of fencing and would like to use the fencing to create a rectangular garden where one of the sides of the garden is against the side of a barn.
Let l represent the varying length of the rectangular garden (in meters). Notice that this means that only one side of the garden necessarily has a length of l meters.
A)Suppose the length of the garden is 15 meters (l=15)
I)What is the width of the garden?
II)What is the area of the garden?
B)Write an expression in terms of l that represents the width of the garden (in meters).
C)Write an expression in terms of l that represents the area of the garden (in meters).

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A farmer has 70 meters of fencing and would like to use the fencing to create a rectangular garden where one of the sides of the garden is against the side of a barn.
Let l represent the varying length of the rectangular garden (in meters). Notice that this means that only one side of the garden necessarily has a length of l meters.
A)Suppose the length of the garden is 15 meters (l=15)
I)What is the width of the garden?
II)What is the area of the garden?
B)Write an expression in terms of l that represents the width of the garden (in meters).
C)Write an expression in terms of l that represents the area of the garden (in meters).
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Perimeter = 2W + 2L
Area = L*W
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