Question

A rectangle has sides measuring (2x + 6) units and (5x + 3) units. Part A: What is the expression that represents the area of the rectangle? Show your work to receive full credit. (4 points) Part B: What are the degree and classification of the expression obtained in Part A? (3 points) Part C: How does Part A demonstrate the closure property for polynomials? (3 points) (10 points)

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

A)

The formula for determining the area of a rectangle is given as

Area = length × width

Given that the length and width are (2x + 6) units and (5x + 3) units, the expression for the area is

(2x + 6)(5x + 3) = 10x² + 6x + 30x + 18

Area = 10x² + 36x + 18

B)

The degree is 2 because the highest power of the terms is 2. It is classified as a trinomial because it has 3 terms.

C) it is closed under multiplication. the exponents in the polynomials are whole numbers(2 and 1). The whole numbers are closed under addition, which means that the new exponents formed are also whole numbers. The exponents were whole numbers before multiplication and doesn't change after multiplication.