Arectangular garden has a width of 5 feet and a length of 10 feet. If an equal amount is added to both the width and the length, the area is increased to 104 square feet. What is this amount?
1 Answer
Jun 21, 2018
Explanation:
We first notice that the length is twice the width. If we let the:
We need to add an equal amount to both of these. Let this amount be
So we have for new area:
Substituting our known value for
Factor:
We can't have negative length, so only
Therefore we need to add