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Chapter 9: Q. 206 (page 919)

A rectangular lawn has area 140 square yards. Its width that is six less than twice the length. What are the length and width of the lawn?

Short Answer

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Length and width are 10 and 14 yard respectively.

Step by step solution

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Step 1. Given Information

Rectangular lawn's area is 140 square yards and width is 6 yard less than twice of rectangle's length.

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Step 2. Apply in rectangle area formula

Let's take xbe the length and 2x-6yard be the width. On applying the data in the rectangle's area formula,

Length×width=Areax(2x-6)=1402x2-6x=140x2-3x-70=0x2-10x+7x-70=0x(x-10)+7(x-10)=0x=10,x=-7

The length cannot be negative. So the length will be 10 yards and width is 14 yards.

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