SOLUTION: I need help solving this problem. You want to plant a small rectangular garden in your back yard. To keep out animals, you will completely enclose the garden with wire mesh ar

Question 15913: I need help solving this problem.
You want to plant a small rectangular garden in your back yard. To keep out
animals, you will completely enclose the garden with wire mesh around its
perimeter. You will also cover the garden with mulch. If you have 80 feet of
wire mesh and enough mulch to cover 375 square feet, what should the garden's
dimensions be? Assume length >= width.

Answer by pwac(253) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You need to find two factors of 375,call them x and y so that:
2x+2y=80(letx=width and y=length)
I found them quickly by trial and error assuming they would be a multiple of 5
so let x=15 and y= 25
(2x15)+(2x25)=80
If there is a better method sure somebody will post it.
Pete
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