Given:
The area of rectangular garden is [tex]x^2-4x-21[/tex] square units.
To find:
The length and width of the cucumber field.
Solution:
The area of a rectangle is:
[tex]A=l\times w[/tex]
Where l is length and w is width of the rectangle.
The area of rectangular garden is [tex]x^2-4x-21[/tex] square units.
We need to find the factors of [tex]x^2-4x-21[/tex] to get the length and width.
[tex]A=x^2-4x-21[/tex]
Splitting the middle term, we get
[tex]A=x^2-7x+3x-21[/tex]
[tex]A=x(x-7)+3(x-7)[/tex]
[tex]A=(x-7)(x+3)[/tex]
Area of a rectangle is the product of length and width.
Therefore, the length and width of the rectangle are [tex](x-7)[/tex] units and [tex](x+3)[/tex] units.
