WEEK 5 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. Please respond to one of the two Discussion Questions with 100-150 words.

A garden measuring 12 meters by 16 meters is to have a pedestrian pathway installed all around it, increasing the total area to 285 square meters. What will be the width of the pathway?

I am assuming the garden to be rectangular Initial area of the garden is

Now pedestrian have been installed all around it for that reason it will increase the length of the sides

Let the width of the pathway be x

New length of the garden will increase by 2x meter and also the breadth.

Therefore new dimension of the garden are (122x) and (162x)

New area will be

(122x)(162x) 285 19256x4x2 285 4x256x-93 0 Using the quadratic formula X
Ignoring...