If 2 plus 2 is four... then what the hell is this?
Answer:
In each place there must be more 100 pennies, but as the total 250 pennies, there are several ways that the money is distributed.
Because there may be 101 pennies in the box and 149 pennies in the bank, but it can also be the opposite; in the box 149 pennies and in the bank 101 pennies.
Therefore, there are many options to answer the question, as long as it is met that there are more than 100 pennies in one place.
We need to account for both x values on either side of the length, and width.
Thus, the length becomes 10 + x + x = 10 + 2x
and the width becomes 5 + x + x = 5 + 2x
For the second question, I'm assuming we don't account for the area that is covered by the garden.
Then we can say that the path is measured by: (5 + 2x)(10 + 2x) - 50, which is the area of the garden itself.
(5 + 2x)(10 + 2x) - 50 = 54
Expanding the brackets:






x = -9, or x = 3/2
Since x > 0, then x ≠ -9
Thus, the only x-value we can take is x = 3/2
It would be f= 1.25n+6.25/n