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Question 1131923: A school has a square playground. The school is going to pave a walkway along the edges of the playground. This plan leaves a rectangular patch of grass in one corner, as shown in the picture. The walkway will be 25 inches wide on the southern edge and 33 inches wide on the eastern edge. The quadratic expression represents the area of the playground’s remaining grass, where x is the side measure of the original square playground.
x2 – 58x + 825 Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A school has a square playground.
The school is going to pave a walkway along the edges of the playground.
This plan leaves a rectangular patch of grass in one corner, as shown in the picture.
The walkway will be 25 inches wide on the southern edge and 33 inches wide on the eastern edge.
The quadratic expression represents the area of the playground’s remaining grass, where x is the side measure of the original square playground.
This is a dumb problem. How do we know the exactly what this rectangular patch does to the problem. Not even a question asked in this.
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You can solve for x
Factors to
(x-25)(x-33) = 0
two solutions
x = 25
x = 33
