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Question 995507: Good morning distinguished Tutors,i kindly need help with the following question-------"A mining company has 10 000 meters of fencing available .It wants to use the fencing to enclose a rectangular field .One side of the field is bordered by a river .If no fencing is placed on the side next to the river ,what is the largest area that can be enclosed?"
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Question 997445: A field bordering a straight stream is to be enclosed and divided in 2. The side of bordering the stream does not need to be fenced.
If 2400 yards of fencing is to be used, give an equation for the perimeter of the field (middle part must be included).
Give an equation for the area of the field.
Rewrite the equation for area so that it contains only one independent variable.
What are the dimensions of the largest rectangular field that can be enclosed? Find algebraically using the vertex.
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Question 997863: Suppose you are to study the area and perimeter of a rectangle with a fixed
width, W = 5. Determine all values of the length, L, where the numerical value of the
area will be larger than the numerical value of the perimeter.
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Question 997863: Suppose you are to study the area and perimeter of a rectangle with a fixed
width, W = 5. Determine all values of the length, L, where the numerical value of the
area will be larger than the numerical value of the perimeter.
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Question 997948: The area of a table top is 52 square feet, and twice the length is 3 feet shorter than two times the width. Find the perimeter of the table top.
I always do just fine working the problem out until I have to apply the zero product rule. I see examples where the two numbers used have the product to equal 'c' but they do not add to equal 'b' in the equation and it is frustrating to me to understand this when that was what I was told to do.
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Question 998037: ) The perimeter of the rectangle shown below is 70 cm. (a) What is the value of “y”? (b) What is the length of the rectangle? (c) What is the width of the rectangle?
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Question 998578: Sue has a big old wooden box without a top. The bottom of the box is 58 feet by 23 feet. The height of the box is 7 feet. Sue wants to put three coats of stain on the outside vertical walls of the box. The stain comes in 1 gallon containers and costs $10.87 per gallon. Sue must buy whole gallons of stain. Each gallon of stain covers 50 square feet of area. How many gallons of stain will Sue need to purchase?
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Question 998578: Sue has a big old wooden box without a top. The bottom of the box is 58 feet by 23 feet. The height of the box is 7 feet. Sue wants to put three coats of stain on the outside vertical walls of the box. The stain comes in 1 gallon containers and costs $10.87 per gallon. Sue must buy whole gallons of stain. Each gallon of stain covers 50 square feet of area. How many gallons of stain will Sue need to purchase?
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Question 998577: An artist is commissioned to paint a large painting on a wall. The wall is a rectangle and it measures 87 feet by 65 feet. The artist charges $68 per square yard. The artist gives no discount for any chunk of area less than a square yard. Find the total charge for painting the wall.
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Question 999074: Gery 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 side of the rectangle letting the wall be the fourth side. How wide the rectangle should be?
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Question 999074: Gery 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 side of the rectangle letting the wall be the fourth side. How wide the rectangle should be?
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Question 999096: The Phillips paper company makes rectangular pieces of cardboard for packing computers. The sheets of cardboard are to have an area of 99 square inches, and the length of the sheet is to be 5 inches more than 2/3 it's width. Determine the length and width of the cardboard to be manufactured.
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