Question

Good Morning! Can someone assist on this word problem? Thank you!
Find a polynomial that represents the width of a rectangle if its area is represented by the polynomial (x2 − 9x + 8) and the length is (x − 1)ft.

Answer 1

Okay, so how to do find the area of a rectangle? By multiplying the width by the height.
Area = length x width
The question is saying that (x^2 - 9x + 8) represents the area, and (x - 1) represents the rectangle's width. Now all you have to do is plug those in to find the width of the rectangle.
(x^2 -9x + 8) = (x - 1)*width
So, to solve for width, you have to divide (x^2 - 9x + 8) by (x - 1)
Hope this helps. :)

Answer 2

Thank you!

Answer 3

you're welcome.