Question #c477a
1 Answer
Mar 16, 2017
The new width
Explanation:
There are two different rectangles to consider. Once we have have chosen a variable, we can write an expression for each side of the rectangles in term of that variable.
Let the width of the smaller garden be
The length is
The shorter perimeter will be
For the larger garden, the width is
and the length is
The longer perimeter will be
The bigger perimeter is twice as big as the smaller:
[
The old garden has width =
The new garden has width
and length