SOLUTION: If the outside dimention of the rectangle flower garden bed including the pathway is 72 by 108cm.if the area of the flower garden bed excluding the pathway is 6400cm² and the path

Question 1140239: If the outside dimention of the rectangle flower garden bed including the pathway is 72 by 108cm.if the area of the flower garden bed excluding the pathway is 6400cm² and the pathway has uniform width how wide is the pathway?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, the width of uniform pathway around just the flower bed

, to account for only the flower bed area

A first simplification is multiply both sides by ;

and solve for a sensible value of x.
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