Question 1189792
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A square garden has a walkway 3 ft wide around its outer edge.
If the area of the entire garden, including the walkway, is 18,000 ft^2, what are the
dimensions of the planted area?
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Notice that under given conditions, the exterior shape is a square of the area 18000 ft^2.


Hence, the side of the exterior square is  {{{sqrt(18000)}}} = 134.16 feet.


It means that the planted square side length is  134.16 - 3 - 3 = 128.16 feet.    <U>ANSWER</U>
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