SOLUTION: Tasha is planning an expansion of a square flower garden in a city park. If each side of the original garden is increased by 7m, the new total area of the garden will be 144m squar
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Question 719014: Tasha is planning an expansion of a square flower garden in a city park. If each side of the original garden is increased by 7m, the new total area of the garden will be 144m squared. Find the length of each side of the original garden. Found 2 solutions by god2012, solver91311:Answer by god2012(113) (Show Source):
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Let 'a' mt be the initial length of the square garden.
New length of the side = (a + 7 ) m
Given : Area of the square garden after increasing each side = 144 sq.m
or a = 5 m
Therefore , initial length of the each side of the original garden = 5 mt.
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The new area is 144 square feet, so the measure of the side of the larger square is the square root of 144. The measure of the side of the old flower bed is 7 less than that.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
