SOLUTION: Your community wants to put a square fountain in a park. Around the fountain will be a sidewalk that is 3.5ft wide. The total area that the fountain and sidewalk can be is 700ft^2.

Question 433242: Your community wants to put a square fountain in a park. Around the fountain will be a sidewalk that is 3.5ft wide. The total area that the fountain and sidewalk can be is 700ft^2. What are the dimensions of the fountain?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = a side of the square fountain
The walk adds ft to the width
given:

Take the square root of both sides

The fountain measures 19.457 x 19.457 ft2
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