Mrs. Fielder decides to build a small snow shelter for her children to wait in before the school bus arrives in the morning she has only enough wood for a total perimeter for 20 feet.

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Step-by-step explanation:

Mrs. Fielder decides to build a small snow shelter for her children to wait in before the school bus arrives in the morning. She has only enough wood for a total perimeter of 20 feet.

a. Make a table of all the whole number possibilities for the length and width of the shelter. Find the area of each shelter.

b. What dimensions should Mrs. Fielder choose to have the greatest area in her shelter?

c. What dimensions should Mrs. Fielder choose to have the least area in her shelter?

d. Township building codes require 3 square feet for each child in a snow shelter. Which shelter from part (a) will fit the most children? How many children is this? Explain your reasoning.

Solution:

a) Let W represent the width of the school shelter and let L represent the length of the school shelter. Therefore:

Perimeter of the school shelter = 2(length + breadth)

20 = 2(L + W)

L + W = 10

Also, the area of the school shelter = L * W

Length (ft)              Width (ft)           Area(ft²) = length * width

1                               9                        9

2                              8                        16

3                              7                         21

4                              6                         24

5                              5                         25

b) The shelter with a length of 5 ft and width of 5 ft has the largest area.            

c) The shelter with a length of 1 ft and width of 9 ft has the least area.  

d) The 4 by 6 ft shelter can hold 8 children (24 ft² / 3 ft² = 8) and the 5 by 5 ft shelter can hold 8 children with an extra space (25 ft² / 3 ft² = 8.33).

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step-by-step explanation:

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- "runner b is moving at a slower rate."

- "the graphs shown are graphs of distance(km) against time(min).

the slopes of this graphs are are given by:

slope = (change in y)/(change in x)

= (change in distance)/(change in time)

this is the formula for finding the speed. so, the slope of these graphs represent the speed of the runner.

taking each division in the graph to represent 1 on both axis:

runner a ⇒ speed = (2-0)/(1-0)

= 2/1

= 2 km/min

runner b ⇒ speed = (3-0)/(3-0)

= 3/3

= 1 km/min

this shows that   runner b is moving at a slower rate."