How would you describe a polynomial to some new algebra students

The rumpart family is building a new room onto their house. the width of the new room will be 16 feet. the length of the room will be 4% greater than the width. write an expression to find the length of the new room. what will be the area of this new room?

Campus rentals rents 2 and 3 bedrooms apartments for $700 ans $900 a month respectively. last month they had six vacant apartments and reported $4600 in lost rent. how many of each type of apartment were vacant?

Me its important ! marge runs an ice cream parlor. her speciality is triple chocolate sundaes. she can prepare 1 sundae every 2 minutes, and she earns $1.20 for each sundae she makes . if she just makes sundaes for a single shift of at most 4 hours and at least 2 hours , which function relates her earnings to the number of minutes she works?