Johnny B's rectangular garden is 5 feet long and 10 feet wide. He wants to make the area of his garden 6 times as large by increasing the length and width by the same amount. Find the number of feet by which each dimension must be increased.

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Finn Mcintosh

22 January, 03:28

Johnny B's rectangular garden is 5 feet long and 10 feet wide. He wants to make the area of his garden 6 times as large by increasing the length and width by the same amount. Find the number of feet by which each dimension must be increased.

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Mitzi · Answer 1

The length is 15 and the width is 20

Step-by-step explanation: 10 times 5 is 50 and 6 times is 300 which is the area you are looking for. 15 times 20 is 300 and you add 5 to each numbers so it works.