SOLUTION: A 22ft by 30ft rectangular plot is surrounded by a walkway of uniform width. If the area of the walkway is 224ft2, what is the width of the walkway?
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Question 1009864: A 22ft by 30ft rectangular plot is surrounded by a walkway of uniform width. If the area of the walkway is 224ft2, what is the width of the walkway?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The area of the plot is:
ft2
The area of the walkway + plot =
ft2
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Let = the width of the walkway
Adding this width to both sides of
the length and width of the plot:
I can see by looking at this:
can't be negative, so
The width of the walkway is 2 ft
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check:
OK
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