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When a square field has 5m added to it's width and 2m added to it's length the area becomes 130m^. Find the original dimensions of the square.
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When a square field has 5m added to it's width and 2m added to it's length the area becomes 130m^. Find the original dimensions of the square.
The hypotenuse of a right angle triangle is 13cm. One side is 7cm longer than the third slide. What are the dimensions of the triangle?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Two separate description & questions given. Just the first is being done or started here.
x, side of the square field;
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Maybe factorable, maybe not...
, and that would have been factorable, since discriminant 529 is a perfect square...
x=8 or x=15
Check both of these values to see if either of them does or does not work according to the description.
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In fact, x=15 DOES NOT work, but x=8 does.
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