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A rectangular pool i 12 meter by 8meter i urrounded by a walkway of width x meter. At what value of x will the area of the walkway equal the area of the pool

Sagot :

At x = 2 ,The area of the walkway equals the area of pool.

To find the area of the walkway, we have to subtract the total area (pool plus walkway) with the pool area.

Thus, first we calculate these two:

Pool area:

[tex]A_{Pool Area} = Breadth * Height[/tex]

Total area (pool plus walkway):

[tex]A_{total area}[/tex] = (x +12 +x) (x + 8 + x)

               = (12 +2x) (8 +2x)

               = 96 + 24x +16x +4x²

               = 4x² + 40x + 96

Therefore, the Walkway area:

The walkway area can found by subtracting the pool are from the total area:

[tex]A_{Total area} - A_{pool Area} = A_{walkway}[/tex]

[tex]A_{walkway}[/tex] = 4x² + 40x + 96 -96

              = 4x² + 40x

Now, the problem is asking for x value that makes equal the pool area and the walkway area.

[tex]A_{walkway}[/tex] = 4x² + 40x = 96

⇒ 4x² +40x - 96 = 0

⇒ 4( x² + 10x - 24) =0

⇒ x² + 10x - 24 = 0

Now,

we factorize this quadratic expression:

x² + 10x - 24 = 0

⇒ (x + 12) (x - 2) = 0

Therefore,

x = -12

and

x = 2

The correct answer is 2, we put the value 2 in the walkway equation, we get:

  x² + 40x

]= (2)² + 40× 2

= 4 + 80

= 84 m²

(We ignore the negative 12)

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