Flowers “Flower carpets” incorporate hundreds of thousands of brightly-colored flowers as well as grass, tree bark, and sometimes fountains to form intricate designs and motifs. The flower carpet shown here, from Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium, has a perimeter of 200 meters. What are the dimensions of the flower carpet?
How can you relate the dimensions to the perimeter?
Use the formula for the perimeter of a rectangle.
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Find the length:
The width is 25 meters. The length is 75 meters.
An equation does not always have one solution. An equation has no solution if no value of the variable makes the equation true. An equation that is true for every value of the variable is an identity.