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Lesson 2: Representing problems with equations & inequalities- Writing equations to represent geometric problems
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Writing equations to represent geometric problems
Practice writing a one-variable equation with variables on both sides that can be used to represent a geometric problem. Created by Sal Khan.
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- [Instructor] We're told the perimeter of the rectangle shown is 17x units. The area of the rectangle
is 15x square units. Write an equation that
represents the perimeter, and also write an equation
that represents the area. So pause this video and
see if you can write those two equations. All right, now let's do this together. So let's tackle this first one. Write an equation that
represents the perimeter. So, the perimeter is
going to be the length of all of the sides. So you have this side right
over here, which is 4x + 2, and then you're going to add this side over here, which is... So it's gonna be plus 2 1/2,
plus this side over here, which is going to be 4x + 2 again. So plus 4x + 2, plus this side, which is
going be 2 1/2, plus 2 1/2. Well, that's going to be
equal to the perimeter, which they told us is 17x units. So that is going to be equal to 17x, and we're done. That's all they wanted. They just want us to write an equation that represents the perimeter. We don't have to solve it. So now let's do the
same thing for the area. The area of a rectangle is going to be our base times our height, or our height times our base. So we could say it's 2
1/2 times 4x + 2, 4x + 2, and then that's going to be our area, which they say is 15x square units. So that's equal to 15x. We could have also
written it the other way. We could have said that
the area which is 15x is equal to 2 1/2, the
height, times 4x + 2. So a lot of different ways to approach it. But in both cases, we are now done.