SOLUTION: Mae Kaliving has a garden whose dimensions are 6 ft. by 4 ft. is surrounded on all four sides by a sidewalk of uniform width. Those sidewalk has an area of 56 sq. ft. Find the widt

Question 1153697: Mae Kaliving has a garden whose dimensions are 6 ft. by 4 ft. is surrounded on all four sides by a sidewalk of uniform width. Those sidewalk has an area of 56 sq. ft. Find the width of the sidewalk.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Total area of sidewalk plus garden, ;
Only the garde area, ;
Only the area of sidwalk, .

Simplify and solve that last equation in whichever way you can or need.

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