SOLUTION: Garden bed equation: A friend has given you left-over landscaping bricks. You decide to make a garden bed and surround it with bricks. There are 62 bricks, and each brick is 8 inch

Question 1205550: Garden bed equation: A friend has given you left-over landscaping bricks. You decide to make a garden bed and surround it with bricks. There are 62 bricks, and each brick is 8 inches long. You would like the garden bed to be slightly more than twice as long as it is wide.as shown in the diagram.you also given yourself a budget of $125 for additional materials should you need them .the local home improvement store sells the same bricks for $1.98 per brick.
Found 2 solutions by MathLover1, ikleyn:
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

You need to provide the diagram.
Answer by ikleyn(52793) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The term "slightly more" is undefined and, therefore, creates uncertainty.

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