SOLUTION: A fence is built across the garden. The garden is 120 meters wide. One quarter of the fence is off the left side of the garden and one quarter of the fence is off the right side o
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Question 1130308: A fence is built across the garden. The garden is 120 meters wide. One quarter of the fence is off the left side of the garden and one quarter of the fence is off the right side of the garden. How long is the fence?
From the entire length L of the fence, + = = of its length L is OUTSIDE the garden.
So, exactly half of L is going across the garden whose width is 120 meters.
Thus, is equal to 120 meters.
Hence, the fence is 240 meters long. ANSWER
