SOLUTION: A square garden of 900 SQUARE METERS is to be surrounded by a walkway of constant width x. The total area of the walkway has to be 700 SQUARE METERS. Find the width x of the walkwa

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Question 892890: A square garden of 900 SQUARE METERS is to be surrounded by a walkway of constant width x. The total area of the walkway has to be 700 SQUARE METERS. Find the width x of the walkway.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Square garden 900 square meters has four sides 30 meters each.

Area of walkway plus garden is ; draw a picture if needed to understand this clearly.

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The walkway area is given as 700 square meters.


Can you do the rest? Solve the equation for x.

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