SOLUTION: A woman wants to enclose the pool shown and have a walkway of uniform width all the way around. How wide will the walkway be if the woman uses 180 feet of fencing? The swimming po
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Question 1045868: A woman wants to enclose the pool shown and have a walkway of uniform width all the way around. How wide will the walkway be if the woman uses 180 feet of fencing? The swimming pool is 20ft wide and 30 ft long.
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Perimeter is 2 times the length plus 2 times the width
\ +\ 2(20\ +\ 2x)\ =\ 180)
Solve for 
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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