The movie, Hidden Figures, tells the story of how 3 African American women, Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson,
teamed up to solve NASA's mathematical equations during the space race
in the sixties. Some documents have been discovered at NASA that
include graphs, tables, and calculations that may have belonged to these
ladies. Your job is to organize these documents into a collection that can
be displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American
History & Culture in Washington, DC.
The floor of the room where the documents will be displayed is rectangular
in shape. The length of the floor is four times the width. The floor area is
144 square feet. Write and solve a quadratic equation to find the length
of the display floor. Show the steps you used to solve the problem and
write your answer in a complete sentence.
Write the equation used to find the length of the of the display floor. *