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Carols flower bed is a rectangle that is 10 feet long and 6 feet wide she wants to cut scale the same but make the length of 4 feet shorter explain why she can’t cut 4 feet off of the width and keep the same shape

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Answer: Carols flower bed is a rectangle that is 10 feet long and 6 feet wide she wants to cut scale the same but make the length of 4 feet shorter explain why she can’t cut 4 feet off of the width and keep the same shape

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Answer:

Carol can't do that because 10 x (6-4)= 20, not 60, the original area.

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Explanation:

10 x 6 = 60, while 10 x 2 = 20 (6-4=2)

Hope this helped!

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