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Advanced Math practice question

A garden bed has an area of 3x² + 6x square metres and a width of 3x metres, where x > 0. What is its length, in metres, when x = 7?

Answer: 9

Length = (3x² + 6x)/(3x) = x + 2. At x = 7, the length is 9. (Check: area 189 ÷ width 21 = 9.)

Common wrong answers

If you answered 13
13 comes from x + 6, forgetting to divide the 6x by 3x properly (6x/3x = 2).
If you answered 21
21 is the width at x = 7.
If you answered 189
189 is the area at x = 7.

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