SOLUTION: Jack wants to fence a rectangular field whose area is 1200 sq.m. He has only 100 meters of fencing so he decided to fence only the three sides of the rectangle letting the wall be
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Question 893163: Jack wants to fence a rectangular field whose area is 1200 sq.m. He has only 100 meters of fencing so he decided to fence only the three sides of the rectangle letting the wall be the fourth side. How wide should the rectangle be?
-pls solve this algebraically
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You are supposed to solve the simultaneous equations.
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