SOLUTION: A rectangle swimming pool is 15 meters long and 8 meters wide. A fence is built around the pool. It is 4 meters from each side of the pool. How long is the entire fence?
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Question 131344: A rectangle swimming pool is 15 meters long and 8 meters wide. A fence is built around the pool. It is 4 meters from each side of the pool. How long is the entire fence? Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If the fence is 4 meters from each side of the pool, that means that the width of the area enclosed by the fence is the 8 meters of width of the pool plus 4 meters on one side and another 4 meters on the other side, for a total width of 16 meters. Likewise, the length of the area enclosed by the fence is 15 + 4 + 4 = 23 meters.
The perimeter of a rectangle is given by , in this case:
