SOLUTION: A local citizen wants to fence a rectangular community garden. The length of the garden should be at least 110 ft, and the distance around should be no more than 380 ft. Write a sy

Question 587812: A local citizen wants to fence a rectangular community garden. The length of the garden should be at least 110 ft, and the distance around should be no more than 380 ft. Write a system of inequalities that models the possible dimensions of the garden. Graph the system to show all possible solutions.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE ENTIRE PROBLEM.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the distance around the perimeter,
Let the length =
Let the width =
The formula for perimeter is:

given:

When the width is close to zero, I get

so, I can say:
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If you plot on the horizontal and
on the vertical, the solutions are only valid between
and
The line you plot looks like

which is the area under this line between
and

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