SOLUTION: The public swimming pool, which is a rectangle measuring 25 meters by 33 meters, needs a new deck. The deck of uniform width that will surround the pool will be made of concrete. T
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Question 1052828: The public swimming pool, which is a rectangle measuring 25 meters by 33 meters, needs a new deck. The deck of uniform width that will surround the pool will be made of concrete. There is only enough money in the budget to cover 2880 square meters with concrete. How
wide should the path be? Found 2 solutions by jorel555, ikleyn:Answer by jorel555(1290) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let w be the width of the new deck. Then the length of the area enclosed by the new deck would be 33+2w, and the width would be 25+2w. So:
(33+2w)(25+2w)-(25x33)=2880
825+116w+4w²-825=2880
4w²+116w-2880=0
w²+29w-720=0
(w+45)(w-16)=0
w=16 or -45
Throwing out the negative result, we get the width of the new deck to be 16 meters. ☺☺☺☺
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
The public swimming pool, which is a rectangle measuring 25 meters by 33 meters, needs a new deck.
The deck of uniform width that will surround the pool will be made of concrete.
There is only enough money in the budget to cover 2880 square meters with concrete. How wide should the path be?
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(25+2x)*(33+2x) - 25*33 = 2880.
(25+2x)*(33+2x) is the area of the largest rectangle.
25*33 is the area of the pool.
x is uniform width of the deck surrounding the pool.
Simplify and solve the equation for x.
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