SOLUTION: Please help with this word problem. While finding the amount of seed needed to plant his three square wheat fields, Hank observed that the side of one field was 1 kilometer longer

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Question 175605: Please help with this word problem.
While finding the amount of seed needed to plant his three square wheat fields, Hank observed that the side of one field was 1 kilometer longer than the side of the smallest field and that the side of the smallest field. If the total area of the three fields is 38 square kilometers, then what is the area of each field?
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Hank observed that the side of one field was 1 kilometer longer than the side
of the smallest field and that the side of the smallest field.
If the total area of the three fields is 38 square kilometers, then what is the area of each field?
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This does not make sense, you left something out.