Answer:
Thus the length = 230 and width = 90.
Step-by-step explanation:
Farmer Fernanda wants to put a fence around her rectangular field. The length of the field is 40 feet less than 3 times the width.
She has 320 feet of fencing.
Let the length of the rectangular fence be x and the width of the fence be y.
Then the relation between them is
x = 3y - 40
Also x + y = 320
Solving these equations,
320 - y = 3y - 40
4y = 360
y = 90
x = 230
Thus the length = 230 and width = 90.
The total amount of money he only made is calculated by
the formula:
amount made = 15,200 – 912
amount made = 14,288
Therefore the percentage commission was:
% commission = 912 / 14,288 * 100%
<span>% commission = 6.38 %</span>
You can see that each time x increases by 1, y increases by 5. This means that the coefficient of x is 5 (if you graphed it, the slope would be 5). To find what value to add at the end, you can look at what y is when x equals 0. In this case, that is -2 (on a graph, -2 would be the y-intercept).
