Question

please someone help me! A farmer builds a fence to enclose a rectangular pasture, he uses 160 feet of fence. Find the total area of the area pasture if it is 50 feet long.

Answer 1

Area= 2000 feet^2

Explanation:

Know how to find the perimeter and the area of a rectangle

area=length*width

perimeter= 2*length + 2*width

Draw a rectangle

The question states that the pasture is 50 feet long

So the length of the rectangle pasture should be 50. We can label the 2 lengths of the rectangle to be 50 feet long

Since the farmer only has 160 feet of fence, we can say that because the pasture is a rectangle, we can label the width as 40 because 2*50+2*40=160

Now that we know the length and width, we can find the area by multiplying those 2 values together to get 2000