SOLUTION: Jane's yard is 10m by 14m. She wants to build a rectangular garden in the centre of the yard. She wants the garden to have an area of 50m^2. The rest of the yard will be used as a

Question 1072654: Jane's yard is 10m by 14m. She wants to build a rectangular garden in the centre of the yard. She wants the garden to have an area of 50m^2. The rest of the yard will be used as a walkway around the garden. How wide will the walkway be? Solve by completing the square and record your answer to the nearest tenth of a metre.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
No other specified information, so assumption is uniform wide walkway around the 50 square meter garden.

Whole yard area, .

Just the garden area, , and x is the width around the garden, to be the walkway.

If you really want to solve by completing the square, go ahead. You start it as , and the term to add and subtract INSIDE the parentheses is .

You do the rest of this or what you need.

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