Question

Doris has a fish pond 15ft by 18ft. She wants to put grass in a strip of uniform width around the pond. She has enough grass seed for 234ft^2. How wide will the strip be?

Answer 1

Draw a picture - a rectangle with one side 15ft and one side 18ft. Then, mark the 4 squares like so. Then, you know that 8x + 2x*15 + 2x*18 = 234. That's one equation and one unknown, you can solve that.

Answer 2

so, solving that equation is gonna give me the answer.?

Answer 3

Yes. x = width, the unknown.

Answer 4

ok thanks