Question

The perimeter of a rectangular cocoa farm is 497 km. The length of the farm is 2½ times the width. Find the: (1) (ii) width; length of the farm.​

Answer 1

width=71km, length=177.5km

Explanation:

Let x be the width of the farm.

Then the length of the farm will be 2.5x.

perimeter of farm in terms of x=2.5x+2.5x+x+x=7x

perimeter of farm in terms of x=perimeter of farm

7x=497

x=71

width=71km

length=71×2.5=177.5