document.write( "Question 41577: Please help me with this problem. Jason is planning to expan a square vegetable garden. If each side of the original garden s increased by 7m, the new total area of the garden will be 144m^2. What is the lenght of each side of the original garden? Thanks \n" ); document.write( "

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You can start by letting s = the length of the original square garden. The expanded garden will have sides of s+7 meters.
\n" ); document.write( "The area of the new garden is:
\n" ); document.write( " $\"%28s%2B7%29%5E2+=+144\"$ Find x by taking the square root of both sides.
\n" ); document.write( " $\"s%2B7+=+12\"$ Discard the negative solution as length is a positive value. Subtract 7 from both sides.
\n" ); document.write( " $\"s+=+5\"$ \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The side of the original square garden is 5 meters. \n" ); document.write( "

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