The area of Carlton Garden is 96 square feet.
The width of the garden is 8 feet
We are asked to find the length of fencing Carlton would need to fence around the garden.
Recall that the area of a rectangular shape is given by
Where L is the length and W is the width.
Let us substitute the values of area and width into the above formula
Therefore, the length of fencing Carlton would need to fence around the garden is 12 feet.