Homework Help Forum: math

Posted by Katherine on Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:01pm.

your aunt is building a garden in her backyard.she has 90ft of fencing to surroud it.if she wants the lenght to be 15 ft onger than the width , what should the dimensions of her garden be

• math - Ms. Sue, Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:05pm

  Let w represent the width. 2w * 2(w+15) = 90 4w + 30 = 90 4w = 60 w = 15 Does that work? 15 + 15 + 30 + 30 = 90 Yep!

  
  

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