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A farm has a square fenced-in area with side length X where the farm gives children pony rides. Adjacent to one entire side of the square, ther
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A farm has a square fenced-in area with side length X where the farm gives children pony rides. Adjacent to one entire side of the square, there is a roped-off rectangular area where the children line up. This rectangle is 4 yards wide and X yards long.
a. The total area of the square and rectangular areas together is 2,700 square yards. Write an equation that represents this situation.
b. Use your equation from part a to find the dimensions of the roped-off rectangular area.
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The discriminant is 104; use this in general solution for quadratic equation.
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