Raymond is planting a border of 48 seedlings that will completely surround a rectangular garden. He wants to plant the seedlings 2 feet apart. If the garden plot is 30 feet long, how wide should it be?
If it is 30 feet long, the other side is also 30 feet long. Thus, we have 30/15 + 1 = 16 saplings for one side. This, multiplied by 2 gives us 32 in all without the width. Now we only have
48-32 = 16 saplings left. Each side minus 2.
Thus, we have x/2-1 saplings on each side.
this, multipled by 2, gives us x-2 saplings.
Since we have 16 saplings, we get x= 18.
Plugging in for width, we get 18/2 -1 = 8 for each side, and 16 for both.
Then we get 16+32 = 48 in all which works.
So the width is 18.
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To determine the width of the garden plot, we need to find the number of seedlings that can be planted on each side. We know that Raymond wants to plant the seedlings 2 feet apart and that there are a total of 48 seedlings.
Since the seedlings will be planted around the entire border, we need to divide the number of seedlings by the number of sides in the rectangular garden (4 sides). This gives us 48 seedlings / 4 sides = 12 seedlings per side.
Next, we can calculate the total length of the seedlings that will be planted on one side. Since each seedling is 2 feet, the total length will be 12 seedlings * 2 feet = 24 feet.
Given that the total length of the garden plot is 30 feet, we can subtract the length of the seedlings from the total length to find the remaining length for the width: 30 feet - 24 feet = 6 feet.
Therefore, the width of the garden should be 6 feet.