SOLUTION: if Area=5000 Length= 30+Width then what is Width

Question 571712: if Area=5000
Length= 30+Width
then what is Width
Answer by KMST(5347) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So as not to repeat the whole words "length" and "width" too many times, we abbreviate by saying
Let L be the length, and let W be the width.

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We get the equation
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We can find the solutions to that equation, applying the quadratic formula, as

We need to discard the negative solution, because the width is a positive number, and we are left with
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Those values are not pretty, but are exact solutions. They cannot be written as exact decimals, but W = approximately 57.284 and L = approximately 87.284
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