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the length of your garden must exceed the width of the garden by 3 feet. you only have 58 feet of fencing to go around the perimeter. if you use all the fencing, what will be the dimensions of your garden?

Sagot :

First let us represent
x-width
x+3-length

Since it has a width and length, we can say it is a rectangle so the formula for the perimeter of it is 2(l+w)

p=2(l+w)
58=2(x+3+x)
58=(2x+3)2
58=4x+6
52=4x
x=13

the width is 13 and the length is 16