SOLUTION: George is putting trim around his rectangular deck, including the gate. He will need 46 feet of trim to do the entire deck. If the deck is 13 feet long, how wide is the deck?

Question 1147098: George is putting trim around his rectangular deck, including the gate. He will need 46 feet of trim to do the entire deck. If the deck is 13 feet long, how wide is the deck?

Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The width = .


Calculate it on your own.

What "the gate" does in this problem and why it is mentioned here, is ABSOLUTELY UNCLEAR.

It would be better and totally correct to exclude it from the post.

Ir is VERY BAD style to introduce unnecessary and excessive words into formulations of Math problems.

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