A new Community Sports Complex is being built in Del Rio. The perimeter of the rectangular playing field is 354 yards.
The length of the field is 7 yards less than triple the width. What are the dimensions of the playing field?



Answer :

We need to know about the perimeter of a rectangle to solve this problem.The length of the field is 131 yards and width is 46 yards.

The perimeter of a rectangle is the summation of it's length and breadth, the longer side of a rectangle is called length and the shorter side is called breadth. The perimeter of a rectangle is given by the formula 2(l+b) where l is the length of the rectangle and b is the breadth of the rectangle. In this question we have been told the perimeter of the rectangular field is 354 yards. The length of the field is 7 yards less than triple the width. Let the width of the field be x yard, then the length is

length=3x-7

Then perimeter in terms of x= 2(l+b)=2((3x-7)+x)=2(4x-7)=8x-14

8x-14=354

8x=368

x=46

Then breadth=46 yards

length =3x-7=138-7=131 yards

Therefore we found out the dimensions of the field to be, the length is 131 yards and breadth is 46 yards.

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