SOLUTION: at a community center, you want ti rope off an area that is adjacent to a building. the length of the building is 10 ft. You have 42 ft of rope. what are the possible widths of the

Question 980605: at a community center, you want ti rope off an area that is adjacent to a building. the length of the building is 10 ft. You have 42 ft of rope. what are the possible widths of the roped-off area?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The building gives 10 feet that the rope does not need to , so 32 feet of rope to finish the rectangle. Another 10 feet ONCE only, must come from the rope.

, and the other dimension at most could be .
Any width from greater than 0 to maximum 11 feet can be the width of the adjascent rectangle.
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