Question

A square cement parking lot is being converted to a nature park. Each side of the parking lot is 100 meters long. The plan is to reduce the side lengths of the lot by 8 meters each year to plant greenery. Which function can be used to calculate the area of the cement parking lot, A, after t years?

Answer 1

`A(t)=(100-8t)^(2)`

Explanation:

Let

t-----> the number of years

A-----> the area of the cement parking lot

we know that

The function that represent this situation is

`A(t)=(100-8t)^(2)`