Question

A community garden with raised beds is being redesigned. The area of the new rectangular beds can be expressed as one-half x (3 x + 4).

Simplify the expression representing the area of the new raised beds.

three-halves x squared + 4 x
three-halves x squared + 2 x
three-halves x + 4
three-halves x + 2

Answer 1

(1/2)x(3x + 4) = (1/2)(3x^2 + 4x) = (3/2)x^2 + 2x.

So the correct choice is: three-halves x squared + 2 x.