SOLUTION: A 22ft by 30ft rectangular plot is surrounded by a walkway of uniform width. If the area of the walkway is 224ft2, what is the width of the walkway?
Question 1009864: A 22ft by 30ft rectangular plot is surrounded by a walkway of uniform width. If the area of the walkway is 224ft2, what is the width of the walkway? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The area of the plot is: ft2
The area of the walkway + plot = ft2
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Let = the width of the walkway
Adding this width to both sides of
the length and width of the plot:
I can see by looking at this: can't be negative, so
The width of the walkway is 2 ft
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check:
OK
