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document.write( "Problem set B question 5\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A rectangular field is three times as long as it is wide.  The fence around the field's perimeter is 800 meters long.  How wide is the field?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I have got that the ends are 100 and the sides are 300, how do I get it in expression formate? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "   Let the breadth be x<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "   Therefore the length is 3x  (as length is three times its breadth)\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "   Now perimeter is given = 800<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "    perimeter = 2(LENGTH+BREADTH)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "     2(3X+X) = 800<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "     2(4X) = 800<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "      8X = 800<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "      8x/8 = 800/8<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "      x = 100\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( " Now     length = 3x = 3*100 = 300\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "         breadth = x = 100\r<BR>\n" );
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