SOLUTION: A retangular garden is 12 feet long. If you walk diagonally across the garden, you would walk 15 feet. How many feet wide is the garden ?

Question 927533: A retangular garden is 12 feet long. If you walk diagonally across the garden, you would walk 15 feet. How many feet wide is the garden ?
Answer by srinivas.g(540) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
length (l)= 12 feet
diagonal (d)= 15 feet
as per Pythagorean theorem,

move 144 to the left

apply square root on both sides

9 =width
so width = 9 feet
Result : WIde =9 feet
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