document.write( "Question 54442: A man has a square garden area with a sidewalk 2 feet wide all around it. If the area of the sidewalk plus garden is 196 square feet, what are the dimensions of the garden area? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #36697 by funmath(2933)\"\" \"About 
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First notice that they said that the garden was a square. That tells us that all of the sides are equal. The area of a square is \"highlight%28A=s%5E2%29\"
\n" ); document.write( "Let the side of the garden =x
\n" ); document.write( "If you were to draw a square with a bigger square extended 2 feet around it, you would see that the bigger square has sides that look like this:
\n" ); document.write( "2ft------x-------2ft, so s=2+x+2=x+4 is the side of the bigger square.
\n" ); document.write( "The area of the garden and the sidewalk can be found by finding the area of the big square, they told us that was: 196
\n" ); document.write( "Your problem to solve is:
\n" ); document.write( "\"A=s%5E2\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"196=%28x%2B4%29%5E2\"
\n" ); document.write( "+ or -\"sqrt%28196%29=sqrt%28%28x%2B4%29%5E2%29\" (We can ignore the \"-sqrt%28196%29\" because that would give you a - dimension.)
\n" ); document.write( "\"14=x%2B4\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"14-4=x%2B4-4\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"10=x\"
\n" ); document.write( "x was the side of the garden, so the dimensions of the garden would be: \"highlight%2810+ft+X+10+ft%29\"
\n" ); document.write( "Happy Calculating!!! \n" ); document.write( "
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