SOLUTION: A tennis court is surrounded by a fence so that the distance from each boundary of the tennis court to the fence is the same. If the tennis court is 78 feet long and 36 feet wide,

Question 1022999: A tennis court is surrounded by a fence so that the distance from each boundary of the tennis court to the fence is the same. If the tennis court is 78 feet long and 36 feet wide, what is the area of the entire surface inside the fence?
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, DrSteve:
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Answer by DrSteve(7) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The answer given above is incorrect. There is nothing missing, this question is straight out of an algebra textbook.
What they're asking for is a polynomial expression to describe the area of the surface inside the fence.
The court is 78 x 36 and there is a constant distance (let's call it "x") from the edge of the court to the fence.
Therefore, the length of the fence will be 78 + 2x (we're adding x to each side of the court, remember).
The width will be 36 + 2x.
To find the area, we must multiply length x width.

This cannot be further reduced without knowing the value of "x," which is not given.
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