Answer:
Length = 90 inch.
width = 30 inch
Let width of the rectangle = x inch.
So the length = 3x inch.
Perimeter = 2(length + width) = 2 (3x + x) = 8x.
So,
length = 3x = 3(30) = 90 inch.
width = x = 30 inch
The question is asking which of the following does not have side that are parallel. So which of them have lines that would never touch if they were never ending lines.
8 foot path
1st step = 8/2 = 4ft
2nd step = 4/2 = 2ft
3rd step = 2/2 = 1ft
4th step = 1/2 = 1/2ft
So he covered 7 1/2 ft (or 7.5ft)
Whenever a problem says "one number" and "another number" we can substitute x and y. for this we have x=2y+1 and xy=1. since we know the value of x (2y+1) we can substitute it for the other equation to get (2y+1)y=10. simplify to get 2y^2+y=10. from here you can do a few methods to solve this, but the simplest in my opinion is by factoring.
In order to factor it must be equal to 0, so we have 2y^2+y-10=0. We factor this and get y=5 (we also get y=-4 but it is an extraneous root). now we can plug that into either equation and find that x=2.
this means our two numbers are 5 and 2
