SOLUTION: I'm stumped on this story problem. Two adjoining garden plots have a total area of 256sqf are enclosed with 80ft of fencing. One plot is square but the other is a rectangular plot

Question 848069: I'm stumped on this story problem. Two adjoining garden plots have a total area of 256sqf are enclosed with 80ft of fencing. One plot is square but the other is a rectangular plot with the length 3 times as large as the width. Determine the length and width of each garden plot. laylowmaxx@gmail.com thanks for any help
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Not shown here, drew x by x square adjoined to a w by 3w rectangle, and showed the rectangle longer than the square. There is an unadjoined length on the rectangle of 3w-x. I might later create and upload a picture of this on an image host site.

Total area,

Fencing is perimeter.

simplifies to
and to

Two equations and two unknowns, highlighted in green. I have not yet tried to solve that as a system...
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