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Question 1194850: What is the quadratic inequality? What is the maximum length of one side of the lawn you can mow if you can mow 36000 square feet of grass per gallon of gas and the mower has 3.6 gallons in it''.
Answer by greenestamps(13198)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Regarding the comment you made to my original response, this problem very definitely DOES ask for "the maximum length of one side of the lawn you can mow".... (a direct quote)
And the problem as shown still makes no sense.
We know the mower has 3.6 gallons of gas and can mow 36000 square feet of grass per gallon of gas. So we know the mover can mow 3.6(36000) = 129600 square feet of grass.
But that is all we can tell from the given information.
We could assume (guess) that the lawn is rectangular; but if it is, we still can't determine the maximum dimension of the rectangle ("the maximum length of one side of the lawn you can mow"), because the length of the rectangle has no limit. It might be 1296x100 feet; or it might be 129600x1 feet; or it might be 12960000x0.01 feet; or ....
If you are posting the problem exactly as it was given to you, then I can't help, because there is not enough information to get an answer.
If you rephrased the problem, or left something out of the problem description, then re-post the problem showing all the required information.
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