(a) The bill for completely covering the floor of a rectangular room with carpet costing shs.70 per square metre is shs.1960.If one side of the...

(a) The bill for completely covering the floor of a rectangular room with carpet costing shs.70 per square metre is shs.1960.If one side of the room is X m long; show that the length of the other side is

b) By leaving a uniform width of ½ m uncovered all round, shs.700 could have been saved. Use this information to form an equation in x and show that it reduces to X² – 11x + 28 = 0.

c) Solve the equation and hence find the dimensions of the room

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Wilfykil answered the question on August 22, 2019 at 08:56

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