Question

There is a 12-ft fence on one side of a rectangular garden. The gardener has 44 ft of fencing to the enclose the other three sides. What is the length of the gardens longer dimension?

Answer 1

Answer:

  16 ft

Step-by-step explanation:

One of the other three sides is 12 ft. After that fence is subtracted from the total, there are 32 ft of fence left for the other two sides of the rectangle. That allows those sides to be 32 ft/2 = 16 ft long.

The rectangle can be 12 ft by 16 ft. The longer dimension is 16 ft.