SOLUTION: Next door neighbors Jim and Jack are planning their spring garden. Each will construct a rectangular garden surrounded by a chain link fence. The length of Jim's garden will be 10

Question 1096744: Next door neighbors Jim and Jack are planning their spring garden. Each will construct a rectangular garden surrounded by a chain link fence. The length of Jim's garden will be 10 feet more than 2 times its width. The length of Jacks Garden will be 5 feet less than three times its width . The length of both gardens will be the same.
Write an expression to represent the amount of chain fence needed to enclose jim's garden.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the width of Jim's garden in ft
= the length of Jim's garden in ft
Let = the width of Jack's garden in ft
= the length of Jack's garden in ft
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given:

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Let = length of chain needed to enclose Jim's garden

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Is this all the given data?
I don't know why they say the length
of both gardens is the same

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