SOLUTION: The length of each side of a square in 3 inches more than the length of each side of a smaller square. The sum of the areas is 425 inches squared. Find the length of the sides of b
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Question 946049: The length of each side of a square in 3 inches more than the length of each side of a smaller square. The sum of the areas is 425 inches squared. Find the length of the sides of both triangles.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Do you mean length of the sides of both squares?
I hope so.
Let be the side of the larger square.
We only need the positive solution.
So then,
First square has length 16, smaller square has length 13.
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