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A rectangular parking lot has a length that is 4 yards greater than the width. The area of the parking lot is 480 square yards. Find the length and the width. Use the formula, area = length * width.

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00:01 Length that is four yards greater than the width.
00:03 So here, so here is my rectangular parking lot.
00:10 And the length is four yards greater than the width.
00:14 The area of the parking lot is 480 square yards.
00:18 So 4 plus x multiplied by x equals 480.
00:26 So i'm going to have x squared plus 4x minus 480 zero.
00:36 So i'm just going to put that in standard form.
00:39 Now, what i have to do next is i have to figure out what two numbers.
00:47 When i multiply them, i get negative 480, but when i add them together, i get a negative 4.
00:54 So i know one of them has to be negative and one of them has to be positive.
00:59 So it's not 48 times 10.
01:10 480 divided by 24.
01:13 Okay...
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