SOLUTION: A concrete walk of uniform width is to be built around a circular pool, as shown in the figure. The radius of the pool is 16 meters, and enough concrete is available to cover $ {
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Question 798186: A concrete walk of uniform width is to be built around a circular pool, as shown in the figure. The radius of the pool is 16 meters, and enough concrete is available to cover $ {\color{black}144} \pi $ square meters. If all the concrete is to be used, how wide should the walk be?
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PROBABLE EXPECTED SOLUTION:
The area of the pool is the area of a circle of radius , so it is
The area (in square meters) of the pool plus a surrounding walkway of width meters would be the area of a circle of radius meters:
The difference is the area of the walkway. In square meters, it is
If we can use enough concrete to cover square meters,
and is our equation.
We can solve it by completing the square, by factoring, or by using the quadratic formula.
Completing the square:
Since we are looking for a positive number ,
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Factoring:
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because <--> is not an acceptable solution.
Applying the quadratic formula:
The solutions to are given by
In the case of , , , and , so
The two solutions are
which does not make sense as width of a walkway,
and which is the width, in meters, of the walkway we want.
MENTAL MATH QUICK SOLUTION:
The area of a circle or radius is
The area of the pool, square meters,
plus the area of the walkway, square meters,
adds up to the area, , of a larger circle of radius meters. So -->
That reminds me of the Pythagorean theorem.
Since and , I can think of as
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Since has been used in so many problems, I remember it better than I remember the times tables, so
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and that means that the width of the sidewalk is meters
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