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An engineering co-op wants to hire an asphalt contractor to widen the truck entrance to the corporate headquarters as shown in Fig. P2.38.
The height h is required to be 10 ft. more than the width b. and the total area of the new asphalt is given by
(a) If
(c) Find the dimensions of the width
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