SOLUTION: Okay so I'm completely stuck on this problem---
A zookeeper has 500ft of fencing and want to build a rectangular fence, give a quadratic equation that relates the area to the le
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Question 333453: Okay so I'm completely stuck on this problem---
A zookeeper has 500ft of fencing and want to build a rectangular fence, give a quadratic equation that relates the area to the length.
So, my question is: How do you do this problem? (Or just the first couple of steps).
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the length of the rectangle =
Let the width of the rectangle =
The circumference,
given:
ft
This is the quadratic equation- you could pick your
own letters instead of and
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