Question

A horse farm is developing a new indoor arena in a rectangular buliding. They want the width of the building to be 3 wide feet and the length to be 4y+8 feet. Write an expression in the simplist form to represent the are a of the building in terms of y.

Answer 1

Answer:

The area of the building in terms of y in its simplest form is 12(y + 2)

Step-by-step explanation:

Since the area of a rectangle is A = LW where L = length and W = width. From our question, the width of the rectangular building is 3 feet. So, W = 3 feet and its length is 4y + 8  feet. So, L = 4y + 8 feet.

So, the area of the building in terms of y is A = LW

= (4y + 8) × 3

Factorizing out 4 from the expression, we have

= 4(y + 2) × 3

= 12(y + 2)

So, the area of the building in terms of y in its simplest form is 12(y + 2)