SOLUTION: You have a 500-foot roll of fencing and a large field. You want to construct a rectangular area for a dog park. Write an expression to represent the length of the dog park in terms

SOLUTION: You have a 500-foot roll of fencing and a large field. You want to construct a rectangular area for a dog park. Write an expression to represent the length of the dog park in terms

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Question 1092697: You have a 500-foot roll of fencing and a large field. You want to construct a rectangular area for a dog park. Write an expression to represent the length of the dog park in terms of the width.
Answer by ikleyn(52778) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The length = .

Try to understand why I subtract the width twice and why I divide by 2.

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