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Problem 1 :

Mr. Fitch hires a landscape architect to renovate his front yard. The rectangular yard is 30 feet long. If the area of the yard is 600 square feet, determine the width of the yard.

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Problem 2 :

The screen of an LED TV measures 32 inches in length and its area is 896 square inches. What is the width of the screen?

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Problem 3 :

The area of an apple orchard is 4,675 square feet. Find the length of the rectangular orchard, if its width is 55 feet.

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Problem 4 :

The area of an aluminum sheet is 124.32 square feet. If its length is 22.2 feet, what is the width of the aluminum sheet?

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Problem 5 :

Ted’s rectangular corn field has an area of 2,280 square feet. What is the length of the field, if its width measures 28.5 feet?

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Problem 6 :

The green chalkboard in the kindergarten classroom is 24 inches wide. If the area of the board is 864 square inches, find the length of the board.

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Problem 7 :

A playground in Bucks Country has an area of 300 square yards. If the width of the rectangular playground is 15 yards, find the length of the playground.

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Problem 1 :

A rectangular field is to be fenced on three sides leaving a side of 20 feet uncovered. If the area of the field is 680 square feet, how many feet of fencing will be required ?

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Problem 2 :

The ratio between the perimeter and the width of a rectangle is 5 : 1. If the area of the rectangle is 216 sq.cm. What is the length of the rectangle ?

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Problem 3 :

A farmer wishes to start a 100 sq.m rectangular vegetable garden. Since he has only 30 m barbed wire he fences three sides of the garden letting his house compound wall act as the fourth side fencing. The dimension of the garden is.

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