An engineer wants to surround the rectangular pool (20 meters long and 10 meters wide) with a stone border of uniform width. There are enough stones to cover 64 square meters. How wide should she make the border?
An engineer wants to surround the rectangular pool (20 meters long and 10 meters wide) with a stone border of uniform width. There are enough stones to cover 64 square meters. How wide should she make the border?
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4. An engineer wants to surround the rectangular pool (20 meters long and 10 meters wide) with a stone border of uniform width. There are enough stones to cover 64 square meters. How wide should she make the border?
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stone
64 sqgn
20 m
10 m 08 al
10+2w
20+ 2w
sup adi stW
gth is to be
IRRAY!
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