Given:
The perimeter of a rectangular building is 1200 feet.
The width of the building is 2 feet less than three times the length.
To find:
Width of the building.
Solution:
Let length of the building be x.
Then, width = 3x-2
We know that,




Add 4 on both sides

Divide both sides by 8.


Now,




Therefore, the width of the building is 449.5 feet.
So u have to rearrange to find x.
First u multiply by - 2 to get rid of the fraction bit
This leaves u with - 46>/x-49
Now u have to get x on its own which means you have to get rid of - 49 and to do this the opposite of - 49 is +49, so you would ADD 49
This gives you 3>/x
And the number line which represents this is B.
you can use long division to do this:-
a + 3 ) a^2 + 2a + 3
= a - 1 remainder 6 or you can write it as a - 1 + 6 / (a + 3)