Question

The width of a rectangle is y feet long. The rectangle is 4 feet longer than it is wide. What is the area of the rectangle?

Which expression represents the area?


y(y + 4) sq ft
y + 4 sq ft
4y sq ft
y2 + 4 sq ft

Answer 1

Any ideas?

Answer 2

Area is width times length.
Your width is y
Your length is 4 + y

Answer 3

So the equation would be y*4+y

Answer 4

=A

Answer 5

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