The plans for a rectangular deck call for the width to be 4 feet less than the length. sam wants the deck to have an overall perimeter of 52 feet. what should the length of the deck be?

Since rectangles have two pairs of equal-length sides, for any rectangle with length L and width W, its perimeter is always 2L + 2W (or 2(L + w), whichever you prefer). Here, we're told that the width is 4 feet less than the length. Symbolically, we'd say that W = L - 4. This allows us to write the perimeter entirely in terms of length if we replace our W with the expression on the right side:

2L + 2W = 2l + 2(L - 4) = 2L +2L - 8 = 4L - 8

Sam wants this expression to come out to 52, so we can set up the equality 4L - 8 = 52 and solve for L to find what the length has to be:

Adding 8 to either side, the equality becomes 4L = 60. Diving either side by 4 gives us L = 15, which tells us that the length of the deck should be 15 feet.

step-by-step explanation:

we are given a graph for system of inequalities.

in order to write the system of inequalities for the given graph, we need to find the inequality for each of the line separately.

let us find the slope of dotted line first.

taking two coordinates on the graph.

let us say (0,0) and (3,1).

let us find the slope of the line now.

slope of the dotted line would be =.

y-intercept of dotted line is y=0 only.

plugging slope m= and b=0 in slope-intercept form y=mx+b, we get

.

the line is shaded up of that dotted line.

therefore, for shading up we would take greater than inequality symbol > .

and because it's a dotted line we would take only > symbol in place of = sign in above equation of line.

therefore, inequality for dotted line would be

let us take two points (3,1) and (0,4) on the solid line.

slope of the solid line would be =.

for the solid line we have y-intercept b= 4.

plugging slope m= -1 and b=4 in slope-intercept form y=mx+b, we get

y = -1x + 4.

the line is shaded down of that solid line.

therefore, for shading down we would take less than inequality symbol < .

and because it's a solid line we would take ≤ symbol in place of = sign in above equation of line.

therefore, inequality for solid line would be

step-by-step explanation:

to find if any function is an inverse of the other, put the first equation in as x in the next one. then simplify and solve. if at the end you get the statement y = x, then it is an inverse. if you get anything else, it is not.