A rectangle has a perimeter of 48 cm. The expression for the area of the rectangle is x^2 + x - 42 Find the area of the rectangle. Show your work!!!

Choose the linear inequality that describes the graph. the gray area represents the shaded region. a: y ≤ –4x – 2 b: y > –4x – 2 c: y ≥ –4x – 2 d: y < 4x – 2

Acaterer charges $500 plus $30 per guest to cater a wedding. walt and traci don't want to spend more than $8000 on catering. write and solve an inequality in terms of the number of guests, g, that can be invited. a) 30g ? 8000; g ? 267 b) 500g < 8000; g < 16 c) 500 + 30g < 8000; g < 250 d) 500 + 30g ? 8000; g ? 250

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.