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you are building a rectangular wading pool you want the area of the bottom to be 90 ft squared you want the length of the pool to be 3 ft longer than twice its width what will the dimensions of the pool be

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We can form a system of equations:
x*y=90
and
x=2y+3.
Solving gives dimensions of 15 feet by 6 feet.
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