SOLUTION: Henry has a patio next to his house that is 15 ft by 10 ft. He wants to put a uniform flower bed around three sides of the patio. The area of the flower bed is 100 square feet. Wha

Question 1028658: Henry has a patio next to his house that is 15 ft by 10 ft. He wants to put a uniform flower bed around three sides of the patio. The area of the flower bed is 100 square feet. What is the width of the flower bed?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Which three sides?

Doing the beginning of this ALL IN VARIABLES, let patio dimensions be x and y. A is flower bed area, and u is uniform width of bed around the three sides of the patio. Depending on which dimension SIDES receive part of the flower bed, usage of the variables into expression may go as...

Pick the one which corresponds to how you choose your variable assignments and solve for u.
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