SOLUTION: A school club has a swimming pool that measures 22 m by16 m .The authorities want to place a fence around the pool and leave 10 m between the fence and the pool for a deck area.how

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Question 1051584: A school club has a swimming pool that measures 22 m by16 m .The authorities want to place a fence around the pool and leave 10 m between the fence and the pool for a deck area.how much fencing will be needed?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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Add 10 m twice to both the length and the width to get the dimensions of the fence.
L=22%2B2%2A10=22%2B20=42m
W=16%2B2%2A10=16%2B20=36m
So then the length of fencing is the perimeter of this larger rectangle,
P=2L%2B2W=2%2842%29%2B2%2836%29=84%2B72=156m