SOLUTION: A garden measuring 8 meters by 9 meters is to have a pathway installed all the way around it. This will increase the total are to 90 square meters. What will be the width of the pa
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Question 963953: A garden measuring 8 meters by 9 meters is to have a pathway installed all the way around it. This will increase the total are to 90 square meters. What will be the width of the pathway ?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A garden measuring x meters by y meters is to have a pathway installed all the way around it. This will increase the total are to A square meters. What will be the width u of the pathway ?
x and y are KNOWN variables,
x=8
y=9
A=90
u=UNKNOWN width
You can continue solving in symbolic form completely if you have a few or several examples like the given problem, but for just one example, this would be the best place to substitute the given values and solve for u.
, which is FACTORABLE...
The uniform width, .
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