SOLUTION: a floor plan for a new house includes a rectangular dining room that measures 5m by 4m. the owners want a larger dining room with an area of 25m^2. the architect re-designs the flo

Question 1181933: a floor plan for a new house includes a rectangular dining room that measures 5m by 4m. the owners want a larger dining room with an area of 25m^2. the architect re-designs the floor plan by adding a strip of floor of uniform width to the two adjacent sides of the dining room. how wide should the strip be to the nearest tenth of a meter.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Only adding to one adjacent pair of sides - not all the way around

x, the uniform string being added

---------to the nearest tenth of a meter
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