SOLUTION: Essay: Show all work. A gardener wants to create a rectangular garden with length of 9x - 5y ft. and width of x - 6y ft. What is an algebraic expression for the area of the gard

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Question 549779: Essay: Show all work. A gardener wants to create a rectangular garden with length of 9x - 5y ft. and width of x - 6y ft. What is an algebraic expression for the area of the garden? Be sure to multiply this out, express in simplest correct mathematical form, and include units.
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The area of a rectangle is the length times the width. FOIL the two binomials. Since the linear unit in both cases is feet, the area is in square feet.

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