Activity 2: Apply Your Skills!

Direction: Read and analyze the problems below to answer the questions that follow.

A. The length of a rectangular garden is two feet less than 3 times the width. If the area of the garden is 65 ft², find its dimensions.


1. What expression represents the width of the garden? How about the expression represents its length?

2. Formulate an equation relating the width, length and the area of the garden. Explain how you arrived at the mathematical sentence.

3. Using the equation, how will you determine the length and the width of the garden?

4. What is the width of the garden? How about its length?

5. How did you find the length and the width of the garden?


NONSENSE = REPORT!​