SOLUTION: 1. A tennis court is to be covered with fiber glass. its area is 80m^2 and its perimeter is 42m. Find the dimensions of the fiber glass needed to cover it.

Question 770959: 1. A tennis court is to be covered with fiber glass. its area is 80m^2 and its perimeter is 42m. Find the dimensions of the fiber glass needed to cover it.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x for length and y for width, so area is xy and perimeter is 2x+2y.

and

Substitute into area equation

One dimension is 5 meters and the other dimension is 16 meters.
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