Read the following situation and answer the questions that follow

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Problem

Read the following situation and answer the questions that follow. A rectangular garden has numerical length ℓ\ell metres and breadth bb metres. The perimeter of the garden is 2626 metres and its area is 4040 square metres. (i) Express ℓ\ell and bb in terms of their sum and product, and write down these two numerical values. (ii) Taking ℓ\ell and bb as the zeros, construct the monic quadratic polynomial whose zeros represent the two dimensions of the garden. (iii) Factorise the polynomial of part (ii) to determine the exact numerical values of ℓ\ell and bb. (iv) Show that the dimensions you have obtained satisfy both the given perimeter and area conditions.

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