SOLUTION: A gardening measuring 7 meters by 17 meters is to have a pedestrian pathway installed all around it, increasing the total are to 200 square meters. What will be the width of the pa
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Question 873259: A gardening measuring 7 meters by 17 meters is to have a pedestrian pathway installed all around it, increasing the total are to 200 square meters. What will be the width of the pathway?
Answer by Seutip(231) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If the length is 17m and width is 7m,
Let:
x- be the width of the pathway.
Therefore,
17+x - be the length
7+x - be the width
The area now will be right?
So:
Therefore
or
Since we don't accept negative widths the answer is 3m! Hope that helps!
Steffy
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