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3 years ago

A flower garden has been designed with an L-shaped walkway and viewing area around two sides as shown.

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nikdorinn [45]3 years ago

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Answer:

c. 2.4 yards

Step-by-step explanation:

If x is the width of the walkway, then the total landscape area is ...

(4.5 +x)(7.5 +x) = 68.31

This quadratic equation can be rearranged to standard form and solved in any of the usual ways.

(x +4.5)(x +7.5) -68.31 = 0

x² +12x -34.56 = 0

Using the quadratic formula, we have ...

x = (-12 ±√(12² -4(1)(-34.56)))/2 = -6 ± √70.56 = -6 ± 8.4

The positive solution is x = 2.4.

The width of the walkway is 2.4 yards.

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