A farmer plans to create a rectangular garden that he will enclose with chicken wire. The garden can be no more than 30 ft wide. The farmer would like to use at most 180 ft. of chicken wire. Write a system of liner inequalities that models this situation.

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anonymous · Answer

since the garden is not supposed to be more than 30 feet wide you have:
$$\Large w \le 30$$

anonymous · Answer

since he's going to make a RECTANGULAR GARDEN,
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P stands for the perimeter of the rectangle (the total length by adding all its sides together)

anonymous · Answer

it was also said in the question that the farmer would like to use 180ft of chicken wire for the rectangular garden.
this could be written as
$$\Large 2x+2y~ \le~180 $$

anonymous · Answer

Did you understand what i wrote please?