SOLUTION: A rectangular swimming pool is twice as long as it is wide. A small sidewalk surrounds the pool. The walkway is a constant 2ft wide and has an area of 196 square feet. Find the dim
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Question 864642: A rectangular swimming pool is twice as long as it is wide. A small sidewalk surrounds the pool. The walkway is a constant 2ft wide and has an area of 196 square feet. Find the dimensions of the pool.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Pool length, x.
Pool width, y.
2 = width of walkway.
x=2y; so let us say:
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2y = pool length, and y = pool width
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Total Area combined walkway and pool is .
Pool Area is .
Walkway area is given, 196 square feet.
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Those three parts give you : . This will be a quadratic equation. Can you do the rest?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! I can call the width of the pool
The walkway adds ft to each side, so
The dimensions of the pool are 15 ft x 30 ft
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