SOLUTION: Brad has a garden with dimensions 12 feet long x 7 feet wide. He wants to enlarge the garden to an area of 119 square feet. How much farther will he need to extend the length of th

Question 1179361: Brad has a garden with dimensions 12 feet long x 7 feet wide. He wants to enlarge the garden to an area of 119 square feet. How much farther will he need to extend the length of the garden to attain his desired area?
Answer by greenestamps(13203) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let x be the number of additional feet added to the length. Then the new area is 119 square feet:

Solve using basic algebra....

Or get some good mental exercise and solve the problem informally:
7 times what new length makes the new area 119 square feet? Then find the difference between the new length and the current length....

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