Question

A rectangular pool is 25 feet long and 12 feet wide. If the length is increased by 2x what is the new length?

Answer 1

Let's work on this together! It's really easy, assuming you didn't make a typo.

Answer 2

ok

Answer 3

Alright, so tell me two things:

What was the original length

How much did they say we're increasing it by?

Answer 4

25 and it only said it increased by 2x

Answer 5

the orginal equation is
A rectangular pool is 25 feet long and 12 feet wide. If the length is increased by 2x what is the new length? If the width is decreased by x, what is the new width?

Answer 6

Excellent! So how do we show when something gets increased by something else? Do we add/subtract/divide/multiply?

For example: I had 3 apples. I increased the number of apples by 2.

Answer 7

add

Answer 8

Excellent! So the length is now 25 + 2x

So you tell me what the width is.

Answer 9

12 - x

Answer 10

Whoops! You're right. It's -. I misread it. Great work!

Answer 11

thanks

Answer 12

No problem!

Answer 13

so what next

Answer 14

what so we do next

Answer 15

i mean so what do we do next

Answer 16

That's all. If the question asked for what the new length/width are, that's all you need.

Unless.... they gave you more information (like what x =) or what the area/perimeter is. But like I said, if you didn't make any typoes, that is your answer.

Answer 17

ok