Question

At a sport clubhouse the coach wants to rope off a rectangular area that is adjacent to the building. He uses the length of the building as one side of the area, which measures $$23 meters. He has at most $$35 meters of rope available to use.

Answer 1

Answer: 6 meters

Explanation:

The question is to form an inequality to solve for the possible widths that the roped area could have.

Let the width be denoted as w.

23 + 2w = 35

2w = 35 - 23

2w = 12

w = 12/2

w = 6

Therefore, the width is 6 meters