SOLUTION: 2. What is the area in square feet of a room that is (4x - 3) feet wide and (2x

SOLUTION: 2. What is the area in square feet of a room that is (4x - 3) feet wide and (2x - 7) feet long?

Question 171923: 2. What is the area in square feet of a room that is (4x - 3) feet wide and (2x - 7) feet long?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Area = Width * Length

So in this case, the area is

Now let's FOIL the expression

Remember, when you FOIL an expression, you follow this procedure:

Multiply the First terms:.

Multiply the Outer terms:.

Multiply the Inner terms:.

Multiply the Last terms:.

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Now collect every term to make a single expression.

Now combine like terms.

So FOILs to .

In other words, .

So the area is square feet.

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