SOLUTION: Translate the following into a quadratic equation, and solve it: the length of a rectangluar garden is three times its width; if the area of the garden is 75 square meters, what

Question 125035: Translate the following into a quadratic equation, and solve it:
the length of a rectangluar garden is three times its width; if the area of the garden is 75 square meters, what are the dimensions?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x = width
3x = length
Area = Length X Width, so

, which is your quadratic equation in standard form.

Factors to:

So, or . The negative result doesn't make much sense in terms of the dimensions of a rectangle, so we can exclude that root. The width of the rectangle is therefore 5 meters, and the length is 3 * 5 =15 meters.
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