Question

The length of a swimming pool is 20 1/4 yards. The area of the pool's surface is 256 1/2 square yards. Jeremy is trying to find the width of the pool. He thinks that the width of the pool is 3/38 yard.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation: The swimming pool is not a square. This is because if you find the square root of the given area, it will not give you the given length. So the swimming pool has length and width of different dimensions. It is a rectangle. The formula for the area of a rectangle is expressed as Length × width.

The length of the swimming is given as 20 1/4 yards = 20.25

The area of the swimming is given as 256 1/2 square yards = 256.5 square yards

Width of the pool is area/length

= 256.5/20.25 = 12.67 yards

So he is wrong. The width is not 3/38 yard.