SOLUTION: A house is built on a square lot, with the front facing the street, and a driveway around the other 3 sides. The house covers the same amount of land as the driveway. The lot is 1
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Question 1059945: A house is built on a square lot, with the front facing the street, and a driveway around the other 3 sides. The house covers the same amount of land as the driveway. The lot is 100 ft. each way. Determine width of driveway.
Non-homework.
Let w = driveway width.
The lot is 100 * 100 = 10000 sq. ft.
Unsure how to proceed. Thanks. Answer by josgarithmetic(39613) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! ASSUMPTION: The driveway is part of the square lot. The house area and the driveway area compose the entire square lot.
Area of the lot, square feet.
Uniform width of driveway, w.
Area which just the house covers, ; a picture will help you to see this.
The only parts of this lot area are HOUSE and DRIVEWAY; and if house area and driveway areas are equal, then each of them is equal to . Just the whole entire area cut in half.
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