You want to join the “Farm-to-Table” crowd and build your own raised garden bed! Polynomials could be helpful in finding the ideal dimensions for this garden bed. Your mission is to choose one of the following shapes and find the area of it. You will generalize the dimensions of your shape with a binomials, like (x + 5), where x is a variable length (in feet or meters). Select the shape of your garden bed from the following shapes. Here are the formulas for their areas:
garden shape formulas
Model the dimensions for your garden bed as a binomial of the format (x + ___). Make sure to choose either feet or meters as the units.
Multiply the dimensions together according to the area formula. Make sure to apply the correct units to your answer. Write your trinomial in standard form.