Question

A garden that is 5ft by 6ft has a walkway 2 ft wide around it. Determine the values of x and y and find the amount of fencing needed to surround the walkway. Be sure to show all of your work

Answer 1

you will need 30 ft of fencing to determine this

Explanation:

so all you need to do is just multiply 6 and 5 then you get 30 hoped this helped bro

Answer 2

Explanation:

x = 10, y = 9 (the diagram woefully misrepresents the actual shape of the garden)

Anyway, 10 ft. will be needed for each of two longer sides of the garden, e.g. 20 ft.

By the same token, the two shorter perimeters total 18 ft.

Therefore, 38 ft. of fencing will be needed.

If you need an explanation for why y is 9 and x is 10, it's because of the 2 ft. of walkway on each side.