SOLUTION: A gardener has 37 ft of fencing to be used to enclose a rectangular garden that has a border 2 feet wide surrounding it.
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Question 1137341: A gardener has 37 ft of fencing to be used to enclose a rectangular garden that has a border 2 feet wide surrounding it.
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(c) If the length and width of the garden are to be the same, what would be the dimensions of the garden in feet? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If the fence encloses the garden + border exactly, then
Take the square root of both sides
and
The dimensions of the garden are 5.25' x 5.25'
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