SOLUTION: A landscape architect is planning a circular flower
bed that will be surrounded by a ring of paving
stones, 25 cm wide. The area of the ring of paving
stones will be half the ar
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Question 1177833: A landscape architect is planning a circular flower
bed that will be surrounded by a ring of paving
stones, 25 cm wide. The area of the ring of paving
stones will be half the area of the flower bed.
Determine the radius of the flower bed, to the
nearest centimetre.
Found 2 solutions by mananth, greenestamps:
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
pi*(r+25)^2 -pi*r^2= (1/2) pi*r^2
pi*(r+25)^2 = (3/2) pi*r^2
(r+25)^2= 3/2 * r^2
r^2+50t +625 = 3/2 * r^2
r^2-(3/2)r^2=-625
-(1/2) r^2 =-625
r^2= 1250
r = 35 cm
Answer by greenestamps(13198) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The other tutor got lost in the middle of her calculations....
The area of the ring of paving stones is half the area of the garden, so the area of the garden plus paving stones is 1.5 times the area of the garden.
Radius of the garden = r
Radius of garden plus paving stones = r+25
with rounding error
ANSWER: the radius of the flower bed is 111cm.
CHECK: (round numbers)
pi(111^2) = 38708
pi(136^2) = 58106
58106/38708 = 1.5
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