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Length of the fence around garden
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A Fence is around a rectangular garden and the length:breadth for fence is 3:1. The total area covered by the fence and the garden is 1600 and the difference in the area of fence and garden is 400.What is the length of the fence?
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the dimensions of the fence are 3x and x, which means its area is 3x^2. If the area of the total space is 1600 and the difference in area between garden space and enclosed fence area is 400, then 3x^2+400=1600, or x=20.
The length therefore is 60.
This is kind of a confusinq question tho: are they asking for perimeter or length?
The length therefore is 60.
This is kind of a confusinq question tho: are they asking for perimeter or length?
