Question 921767: I have 2 questions I need help with, the first one is confusing me because I can't figure out if it is an area perimeter question or border, my teacher gave us an assignment but it had questions that are set up in a way she never showed us.
1) The hillcrest garden club wants to double the area of its rectangular rose be. Strips of the same width will be added to one end and one side to form a rectangle. If the bed was 17.5m by 12.2m, what are the dimensions of the new bed?
I have no idea how to do the second one, I was never given a question like this
2)Mike Powwell of the USA set a world record of 8.95m for the long jump in 1991. If he ascended to a maximum height of 1.1m, find the quadratic equation that describes his jump path.
If you are able to provide brief (or fully explained) steps to HOW it is worked out that would be amazing, I want to understand how to do it so I can practice. Thanks!
Answer by josgarithmetic(39613)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Question Number 1, not all of the values are given.
The problem description seems to be this:
The hillcrest garden club wants to double the area of its rectangular rose beD. Strips of the same width will be added to one end and one side to form a rectangle. If the bed was 17.5m by 12.2m, what are the dimensions of the new bed?
Let w be the uniform width of the stripping to be added to the garden.
Notice that you were NOT given the values for the new area nor the width of the stripping.
Dimensions of the new "bed"?
17.5+w and 12.2+w.
That's all.
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Actually no change was done to the garden bed; only change to the border around the garden bed. The bed is NOT new, so still the same 17.5m by 12.2m.
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