Question

1. A rectangular field covers 2400 m2. Its length is 50 m longer than its width.

What is the width of the field?

Answer 1

do you know the area formula and perimeter formula for a rectangle?

Answer 2

That's a very good starting question! Thank you.
Next: Letting w represent the width of the field, how would you represent algebraically the length of the field? You could use the letter l to represent that quantity, but should also express l in terms of w.

Answer 3

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