Pedro wants to make a square pen for his goats. He plans that the pen will have a perimeter of at most 60 ft and that a side of

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Pedro wants to make a square pen for his goats. He plans
that the pen will have a perimeter of at most 60 ft and that
a side of the pen will be at least 10 ft long. He has enough
money to buy fencing for a pen as large as 40 ft on a side.

a. The inequality 4n ≤ 60 models the amount of fence
Pedro will use for a pen with side length n ft. Which
values from 10 to 40 are solutions of the inequality?
Write your answer using two inequalities.

b. What do the solutions mean about the amount of fence Pedro will buy?

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