Question

Omar must put 50 feet of fencing around his rectangular patio. The length of the patio is one foot longer than three times the width. Find the solution set for 2w + 2(3w + 1) = 50 given the replacement set {6, 7, 8, 9} to determine the width of the patio.
a 6
b 7
c 8
d9

Answer 1

@zepdrix

Answer 2

Hi c:

Answer 3

What is this `replacement set` business?
Those are values that we're using for the `length` I guess?

Answer 4

what

Answer 5

@bloopman

Answer 6

I dunno what replacement set means :( soz..

Answer 7

just solve the equation and put {} around the number you get.
or, do it the silly way, and plug in every number they give you from the replacement set and use that