SOLUTION: can someone please help me i have no idea how to solve this...thank very much...if you could help me...sect. 10.3 # 48 Construction. A garden area is 30 ft long and 20 ft wide.

Question 73882: can someone please help me i have no idea how to solve this...thank very much...if you could help me...sect. 10.3 # 48
Construction. A garden area is 30 ft long and 20 ft wide. A path of uniform width is set around the edge. If the remaining garden area is 400 ft^2, what is the width of the path?

Answer by nilan(17) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let x is the width of the path
then

we can siplify this as

then

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