SOLUTION: Glenn cuts half a rectangular lawn, 40m by 30m, by mowing strips of equal width around the perimeter. Brad cuts the small rectangular left. How wide a strip does Glenn cut so that

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Question 324734: Glenn cuts half a rectangular lawn, 40m by 30m, by mowing strips of equal width around the perimeter. Brad cuts the small rectangular left. How wide a strip does Glenn cut so that they share the work equally? I need to solve using the quadratic formula.
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Since Glenn cuts a strip meters wide all the way around, each of the dimensions of the rectangle left for Brad is the original dimension reduced by . The entire lawn area is 30 times 40 meters or 1200 square meters. That means we need to choose so that Brad's piece which measures by is half of that area or 600 square meters.



Expand the binomials, put the equation in standard form, and then solve the resulting quadratic for .

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