SOLUTION: A farmer has 90 meters of fencing and would like to use the fencing to create a rectangular garden in the middle of an open field. Let l represent the varying length of the r

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Question 1122303: A farmer has 90 meters of fencing and would like to use the fencing to create a rectangular garden in the middle of an open field.

Let l represent the varying length of the rectangular garden (in meters).
a. Suppose the length of the garden is 10 meters (L=10)
What is the width of the garden?
What is the area of the garden?
b. Write an expression in terms of L that represents the width of the garden (in meters).
c. Write an expression in terms of L that represents the area of the garden (in meters).

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A farmer has 90 meters of fencing and would like to use the fencing to create a rectangular garden in the middle of an open field.
Let l represent the varying length of the rectangular garden (in meters).
a. Suppose the length of the garden is 10 meters (L=10)
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Why start with "1" and then change to "L"? Start with and stay with "L".

If w is width, then 90%2B2%2A10%2B2%2Aw, and you can find w, and compute area of the garden. w%2AL