document.write( "Question 1031160: a woman plans to use one-fourth of her 48-foot-by-100-foot rectangular backyard to plant a garden. find the perimeter of the garden if the length is to be 40 feet greater than the width.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The area of the backyard is simply 48 times 100. You can do the arithmetic to find the desired area of the garden,

, which is 1/4 of the area of the backyard.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Since the length of the garden needs to be 40 feet longer than the width, you can say that the width is represented by

and the length is represented by

. That means that the area of the garden is not only equal to 1/4 of the area of the backyard, it is also equal to the product of the length times the width, or

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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Calculate the desired area of the garden, then substitute that value for

. Put the quadratic into standard form and solve for

. Finally, calculate

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