Homework Help: Math

Posted by Kestrel on Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 12:33am.

Jackie mows a strip of uniform width around her 25 m by 15 m rectangular lawn and leaves a patch of lawn that is 60 percent of the original equation. what is the width of the strip

Math - Izhar, Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 2:28am
25x15=375 of 60%
=375x60/100
=225
I am not 100% sure that its correct. Still Iwould say 50 /50

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