SOLUTION: a gardener has 79 feet of fencing to be used to enclose a rectangular garden that has a border 2 feet wide surrounding it. If the length and width of the garden were to be the same
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Question 263725: a gardener has 79 feet of fencing to be used to enclose a rectangular garden that has a border 2 feet wide surrounding it. If the length and width of the garden were to be the same, what would be the dimensions of the garden? Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Since the length and width are equal it is a square.
let the side be x
there is 2 feet border on each side
so the side including border will x+4 _________ 2 on each side
4(x+4)= 79
4x+16=79
4x=63
x=63/4 = 15.75 feet
