SOLUTION: 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
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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 Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You can start by letting s = the length of the original square garden. The expanded garden will have sides of s+7 meters.
The area of the new garden is: Find x by taking the square root of both sides. Discard the negative solution as length is a positive value. Subtract 7 from both sides.
The side of the original square garden is 5 meters.
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