Question

1. You have a piece of land where you want to grow a garden. You only

have 20 yards of fencing to surround the garden. Work through the steps
below to figure out the maximum space you can create to grow plants.

A) you decide to make the width 3 yards.
Length: _____ yards
Area: _____ square yards

Answer 1

Since they stated that there is 20 yards of fencing surrounding the garden,

We are safe to assume that 20 yards is the perimeter.

We can find the length by

20 yards - (3yards x 2) = 14 yards
14 yards / 2 = 7 yards

The length would then be 7 yards derived from the formula of a perimeter:

2Length + 2Width = Perimeter.

To find the area, we simply just multiply the Length by its Width like so:

7 yards x 3 yards = 21 yards^2

Answers:

Length = 7 yards
Area = 21 yards^2