Suppose you want to build a small walkway around your garden so that there is someplace to walk around and work on your vegetables. The garden measures 20 feet by 30 feet and you want to increase the area of the garden to 1,000 ft2. What is the width of the walkway?

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evoker · Answer

Try drawing the problem, it may help

evoker · Answer

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evoker · Answer

and keep in the mind the larger rectangle needs to have an area of 1000 more than the original rectangle.

shealyn · Answer

whats the og walkway lngth

liziekay · Answer

I had this in Algebra 2 last semester..