SOLUTION: Please help me with my assignment for investigating the relationship between the width and the area of rectangles with a constant perimeter of 24cm

Question 1136417: Please help me with my assignment for investigating the relationship between the width and the area of rectangles with a constant perimeter of 24cm

Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let l be the length of the rectangle and w be its width, then we have
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2l +2w = 24
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l + w = 12
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solve for l
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l = 12 -w
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Area of rectangle(A) = l * w
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substitute for l
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A = (12 -w) * w
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Relationship between area and width of rectangle
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A = 12w -w^2
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the graph of this equation is a parabola that opens downward, the x-axis is values for width and the y axis is the area of the rectangle
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make a table
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width Area ratio width to area
----- ---- -------------------
1.....11...1/11
2.....20...1/10
3.....27...1/9
4.....32...1/8
5.....35...1/7
6.....36...1/6
7.....35...1/5
8.....32...1/4
9.....27...1/3
10....20...1/2
11....11...1
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Maximum area of the rectangle occurs when the width is 6cm and the length is 6cm
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Note all squares are rectangles but all rectangles are not squares
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