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27 March, 14:36

Determine whether quantities vary directly or inversely and find the constant of variation. A rectangle has length 72 cm and width 56 cm. The other rectangle has the same area as this one, but its width is 21 cm. Find its length.

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  1. 27 March, 15:46
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    A=LW and we have:

    21L=72*56

    21L=4032

    L=192

    If we were not told the width though and were to set up a function to determine length by the variable W we would get:

    L=4032/W

    Then this would be inverse variation which is of the form y=k/x.
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