Question

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 linear inequalities that models this situation.

Answer 1

How wide will it be? I suggest W.
What will the length be? I suggest L.

Okay, let's see some inequalities.

Answer 2

Well, Nina, first of all: can either x or y be negative? zero? Write inequalities governing possible x- and y-values accordingly.

Answer 3

Or, better yet, write inequalities governing possible values for W and L, as HunkyDory has suggested.

Answer 4

First, first of all you should DEFINE x and y. Please don't forget that most important step.