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A seed company planted a floral mosaic of a national flag. The perimeter of the flag is 420 feet. Determine the flag’s length and width if
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A seed company planted a floral mosaic of a national flag. The perimeter of the flag is 420 feet. Determine the flag’s length and width if the length is 110 feet greater than the width. Use pencil and paper. Write three situations to which you could apply the resulting system of equations. What is the flags width?
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Answer:
Width = 50ft
Length = 160ft
Step-by-step explanation:
Given parameter:
The perimeter of the flag is 420ft
Unknown:
Length of flag = ?
Width of flag = ?
Solution:
To solve this problem;
Perimeter of the flag is given as:
Perimeter = 2(Length + width)
Length =110 + Width
Now insert the parameters:
420 = 2(110 + Width + Width )
let w = width
420 = 2(110 + 2w)
420 = 220 + 4w
4w = 200
w = 50ft
Length = 110 + 50 = 160ft