SOLUTION: Adam needs to fence his rectangular garden of area 240ft ^2. Adam fences all but one side, which is of length 40 ft. What is the length of fencing that Adam needs?
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Question 1100045: Adam needs to fence his rectangular garden of area 240ft ^2. Adam fences all but one side, which is of length 40 ft. What is the length of fencing that Adam needs? Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source):
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Adam needs to fence his rectangular garden of area 240ft ^2. Adam fences all but one side, which is of length 40 ft.
What is the length of fencing that Adam needs?
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If one dimension of the rectangle is 40 ft, then the other dimension is = 6 ft.
Then the length of fencing that Adam needs is 6 + 40 + 6 = 52 ft.
