SOLUTION: Please help me solve this word problem. Leo's garden, which is 6m wide, has the same area as Jen's garden, which is 8m wide. Find the lengths of the two rectangular gardens if Leo'

Question 1074656: Please help me solve this word problem. Leo's garden, which is 6m wide, has the same area as Jen's garden, which is 8m wide. Find the lengths of the two rectangular gardens if Leo's garden is 3m longer than Jen's garden. First make a sketch.
Answer by Gogonati(855) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let Jen's garden be x m long then Leo's garden will be (x+3)m long.Since the shapes of two gardens are rectangulars with the same area we write:
solving this equation we find x=9.
Therefore the length of Jen's garden is 9m and the length of Leo's garden is
9+3=12m.
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