Question

The area of a rectangular piece is 280 if the length is 5 meters less and the width was 1 meter more the piece would be a square

Write and equation to find the width
Find the width

Answer 1

@ganeshie8

Answer 2

@Ashleyisakitty @TheSmartOne

Answer 3

Welcome to OpenStudy @Jgerftnyt

What have you understood from your question?

Answer 4

That I have to make an equation and I'm confused from the steps could you please help me

Answer 5

What do you make of this sentence:

if the length is 5 meters less and the width was 1 meter more the piece would be a square

Answer 6

Y-5 and x+1

Answer 7

How do I make the equation

Answer 8

and it says it would make a square, and a square has sides that are all equal, right?

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

What's next???

Answer 11

@TheSmartOne

Answer 12

L - 5 = W + 1

Solve for L

Answer 13

and then you plug that into \(\sf L \times W = 280\)

and you set it equal to 0 and you'll have a quadratic equation that you'll need to solve.

Answer 14

@TheSmartOne so x+1 =y-5. X+6=y whats next

Answer 15

lets use L and W because they stand for length and width and it will make it easier for us :)

Answer 16

so we have L = W+6

Plug that into \(\sf\Large L \times W = 280\)

so we get

\(\sf\Large (w+6)w=280\)