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29 September, 21:23

A soccer field is bordered on three sides by a parking lot of a width x. the total length of the field and parking lot is 300 M and a total width is 200 M the area of the field is 30000 M squared how wide is the parking lot

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  1. 29 September, 23:50
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    Answer: Parking lot is 60m wide

    Step-by-step explanation:

    Since the parking lot is x meters, the length of the field would simply be (300-2x) m while the width of the field would be (200-x). The width would also have been 200-2x but we must remember that the field is only covered on 3 sides.

    Area of the field is 30,000. This means if we multiply both, we get 30,000.

    Mathematically;

    (300-2x) (200-x) = 30,000

    60,000-300x-400x + 2x^2 = 30,000

    2x^2-700x-30,000 = 0

    We can see we now have a quadratic equation we need to solve.

    2x^2+500x-1200x-30,000 = 0

    2x (x+250) - 120 (x+250) = 0

    (2x-120) (x+250) = 0

    2x-120 = 0 or x+250=0

    2x = 120or x = - 250

    x = 120/2 or x = - 250

    x = 60 or x=-250

    We discard x = - 100 as x is length and cannot be negative

    Hence, x = 60m
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