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Ricardo needs to buy fencing to go around his rec rectangular garden. The garden is 9 feet long and has a perimeter of 30 feet. what is the width in feet of the garden

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the perimeter of the rectangle is 2(width + long) and in this question is 30
so we have:
2( w + 9 ) = 30
w + 9 = 30/2
w + 9 = 15
w = 15 -9
width = 6 :)))
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