Kim wants to have equal amounts of room on all four sides of her dining room table. A 5ft by 8ft table is placed in the center of a rectangular room that has an area of 154 square feet. What is the width of the clear space Kim will have on all sides of her table? Show your work.

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So basically if she wants equal width on all sides the equation is:

A = (5+2x) * (8+2x)

So, you have area of 154. Set that equal to the equation:

154 = (5+2x)*(8+2x) and solve for x.