SOLUTION: i don't know how to solve this problem a garden that is 4 meters wide and 6 meters long is to have a uniform border such that the area of the border is the same as the area of

Question 929659: i don't know how to solve this problem
a garden that is 4 meters wide and 6 meters long is to have a uniform border such that the area of the border is the same as the area of the garden. find the width

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the uniform width of the border.

Area of garden, .
Area of border combined with garden, . A picture helps to see this.
Area of just the border, .

You want the combined area to be twice the garden area:
, to avoid the extra step (do you need it?)

Solving that for x should be no big deal. Simplify, and do what skills you know for quadratic equations.

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