Question 97031: Bob fenced in a rectangular garden in his yard. The length of the rectangle is 6 feet longer than the width and the perimeter is 104 feet. What is the width of the rectangle?
Answer by guitarguy23(2)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Honestly, im not how to solve it correctly. But heres what i do have.
Go ahead and divide 104 by 4 (sides). You get 26
Since the legnth is 6 feet longer, just add 6 to the legnth and subtract 6 from the width, you end up with the legnth of both sides being 32, and the width of both sides being 20
Check:
Perimiter is adding the 4 sides together.
20+20=40
32+32=64
64+40=104
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