The perimeter of a pumpkin patch is 120 feet. if the length is 8 feet more than the width, what are the dimensions of the pumpkin patch?

A linear equation is something of the form:

y = a*x + b

Where the solutions are the pairs (x, y) such that the equality is true.

Here we will find that the correct option is c: infinitely many solutions.

In this case, we have the equation:

3x - 11y = 10

We can rewrite this as:

3x = 10 + 11*y

x = 10/3 + (11/3)*y

Ok, now we have one variable on each side, now let's see the number of solutions.

As you can see, we have one equation with two variables.

So if for example we take y = 0, we get:

x = 10/3 + (11/3)*0 = 10/3

So one solution is (10/3, 0)

If we take y = 1, we get:

x = 10/3 + (11/3)*1 = 22/3

Then another solution is (22/3, 1)

And as you can see, y can take any real value. So we have infinite values of y.

This also means that we have infinite values of x (as we have one value of x for each value of y). Then we will have infinite solutions for the linear equation.

The correct option is c.

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