Question

Manny has 48 feet of wood. He wants to use all of it to create a border around a garden. The equation 2l + 2w = 48 can be used to find the length and width of the garden, where l is the length and w is the width of the garden. If Manny makes the garden 15 feet long, how wide should the garden be?

Answer 1

"Manny makes the garden 15 feet long" so L = 15

therefore 2L + 2W = 48

plugging in L = 15 gives us

2(15) + 2W = 48

^ try solving this for W

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