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: Alright, I've got one last question. I keep getting half of what the book says the answer is. It seems like such a simple problem, but for some reason I just can't get an answer that matches the books! It's a word problem:
Harold Johnson lives on a four-sided, 50,000-square-foot lot that is bounded on two sides by parallel streets. The city has assessed him $1,000 for curb repair, $2 for each foot of property bordering on these two streets. How far apart are the streets? This question is from textbook
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let's assume his property is a rectangle with length, L, and width, W.
The lengths, L, are the sides bordering the streets.
The distance between the street is then W.
We know the area,
1.
We know the assessment of his bordering lengths, (L+L), at $2/ft totals $1000
2.
From 1,
