Barry had a rectangular farm with dimensions x feet and 20 feet. He put a fence along 30 feet of the boundary of the farm.

An expression is shown below:

(2x + 40) - 30

Part A: What does the expression represent?

Part B: What does 2x + 40 represent?

Part C: What does 2x represent?

Question

Barry had a rectangular farm with dimensions x feet and 20 feet. He put a fence along 30 feet of the boundary of the farm.

An expression is shown below:

(2x + 40) - 30

Part A: What does the expression represent? 

Part B: What does 2x + 40 represent? 

Part C: What does 2x represent?

anonymous · Answer

hang on im trying to figure it out..

anonymous · Answer

sorry no i don't get the answer.

anonymous · Answer

A rectangle with dimensions x by 20 has a perimeter or boundary of 2x + 40 that is the answer to part B.

Out of the perimeter of 2x + 40 feet, 30 feet of is covered in fence. So the left over boundary is 2x + 40 - 30, that is, (2x + 4) - 30 is the boundary without fence

2x represents the total length of two opposite sides of the rectangle other than the 20 feet side

meilendurcer · Answer

@Rookies2121 thanks for attempting though ^_^

meilendurcer · Answer

@navk is that all A, B and C?

anonymous · Answer

Yes it is, though I have not answered it in that order: the three paras are answers to parts B, A and C in order

meilendurcer · Answer

right right just saw thanks!

anonymous · Answer

great!