A few days ago
vadataborn

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Construction. A garden area is 30ft long and 20ft wide. a path of uniform width is set around the edge. If the remaining garden area is 400ft^2, what is the width of the path?

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A few days ago
sayamiam

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if the garden area is 30ft long by 20ft wide, then the area of the garden is 600 ft^2.

if the actual garden area is 400 ft^2, then the path around it is 600-400=200 ft^2

and since 400 is 20^2, then the dimensions of the path are10 ft by 20ft.

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