SOLUTION: A swimming pool is 5 m longer than it is wide and is surrounded by a deck 2 m wide. The area of the pool and deck together is at least 140m^2 greater than the area of the pool alon
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Question 897639: A swimming pool is 5 m longer than it is wide and is surrounded by a deck 2 m wide. The area of the pool and deck together is at least 140m^2 greater than the area of the pool alone. What can you conclude about the dimensions of the pool?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = area of the pool in m2
Let = area of the deck in m2
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given:
m2
The area of the pool plus the deck is:
The width has to be greater than m
The length is greater than m
since
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check:
close enough
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