4. A garden is being planted by the side of a house using one of the sides as one edge of
the rectangular garden. There will be exactly 150 feet of fencing used to close in the
fence on the remaining 3 sides.
Here is a sketch of the garden:
house
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a. Complete the table by giving the width and area for each length. (The length is
the side perpendicular to the house.)
Length (0)
width (w)
15
length (0)
25
width (w)
Area (square feet)
b. Write an equation to represent w, the width of the garden in feet, as a function of
I, the length in feet.
c. Write an equation to represent A, the area in square feet, as a function of the
length in feet.