## anonymous one year ago The area of a rectangular piece is 280 if the length is 5 meters less and the width was 1 meter more the piece would be a square Write and equation to find the width Find the width

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1. anonymous

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2. anonymous

@Ashleyisakitty @TheSmartOne

3. TheSmartOne

Welcome to OpenStudy @Jgerftnyt What have you understood from your question?

4. anonymous

That I have to make an equation and I'm confused from the steps could you please help me

5. TheSmartOne

What do you make of this sentence: if the length is 5 meters less and the width was 1 meter more the piece would be a square

6. anonymous

Y-5 and x+1

7. anonymous

How do I make the equation

8. TheSmartOne

and it says it would make a square, and a square has sides that are all equal, right?

9. anonymous

Yes

10. anonymous

What's next???

11. anonymous

@TheSmartOne

12. TheSmartOne

L - 5 = W + 1 Solve for L

13. TheSmartOne

and then you plug that into $$\sf L \times W = 280$$ and you set it equal to 0 and you'll have a quadratic equation that you'll need to solve.

14. anonymous

@TheSmartOne so x+1 =y-5. X+6=y whats next

15. TheSmartOne

lets use L and W because they stand for length and width and it will make it easier for us :)

16. TheSmartOne

so we have L = W+6 Plug that into $$\sf\Large L \times W = 280$$ so we get $$\sf\Large (w+6)w=280$$