Mathematics

Alyssa Ware

14 August, 19:53

Juanita designed a vegetable garden in the shape of a square and purchased fencing for that design. then she decided to change that design to a rectangle.

a. the square garden had an area of x^2 ft^2. the area pf the rectangular garden is (x^2-25) ft^2. factor this expression.

b. the rectangular garden must have the same perimeter as the square garden, so jaunita added a number of feet to the length and subtracted the same number of feet from the width. use your factors from part a to determine how many feet were added to the length and subtracted from the width

c. if the original length