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Your mom's garden is a rectangle with a perimeter of 62 feet. The length is 1 foot more

than twice the width.
Let L the length, W = the width.
Perimeter equation:

Length equation:

Your mom's garden is a rectangle with a perimeter of 62 feet. The length is 1 foot-example-1
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A rectangle has four sides, two of which being length and other other two being width. Perimeter is the sum of all sides. Therefore, the perimeter equation would be:

2L + 2W = 62

Rearrange to get length equation:

2L = 62-2W
L = (62-2W)/2
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