A rectangular basketball court in a certain Barangay is to be painted by the Sanggunian ng mga kabataan officials . The length of the court is 10 meters longer than its width and its area is 144 square meters.
Questions.
1. How long is the basketball court ?
2. What equation will represent the Area of the basketball court the perimeter of the basketball court ?
3. What equation will represent the perimeter of the basketball court ?
4. Using the idea of sum and product of roots of quadratic equation , how would you determine the width and length of the basketball court.
5.What are the dimensions of the rectangular basketball court ?
Answers & Comments
Answer:
1.94 by 50 feet
2.Also it's fairly safe to assume that the basketball court is rectangular. The formula for perimeter of a rectangle is 2l+2w=p . We know that the perimeter is 280 so our first equation will be 2l+2w=280
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5.Dimensions. Basketball courts come in different sizes. In the National Basketball Association (NBA), the court is 94 by 50 feet (28.7 by 15.2 m). Under International Basketball Federation (FIBA) rules, the court is slightly smaller, measuring 28 by 15 meters (91.9 by 49.2 ft).