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The city is building a rectangular parking lot. The city wants the length of the parking lot to be 6 yards. The area of the parking lot must be at least 66 square yards. (All the city employees must park there) write an inequality that describes the possible widths (in yards) of the parking lot.Use w for the width of the rectangular parking lot

The city is building a rectangular parking lot. The city wants the length of the parking-example-1
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The area of a rectangle is given by: length*width

The lenght must = 6

The area must be at least 66 yards. This is includes the value 66 as a possible area when writing our inequality.


\begin{gathered} A\text{ = l*w} \\ 66\leq6w \\ w\ge11 \end{gathered}

Answer: w is greater than or including 11.

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