SOLUTION: A gardener has 37 ft of fencing to be used to enclose a rectangular garden that has a border 2 feet wide surrounding it.
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Question 1137341: A gardener has 37 ft of fencing to be used to enclose a rectangular garden that has a border 2 feet wide surrounding it.
Use this information to answer the following.
(c) If the length and width of the garden are to be the same, what would be the dimensions of the garden in feet?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If the fence encloses the garden + border exactly, then
Take the square root of both sides
and
The dimensions of the garden are 5.25' x 5.25'
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