Question

Miles has a square garden in his backyard. He decides to decrease the size of the garden by 1 foot on each side in order to make a gravel border. After he completes his gravel border, the area of the new garden is 25 feet2. In the equation (x - 1)2 = 25, x represents the side measure of the original garden.

Answer 1

The length of each side of the original garden was 6 feet.

The area of the original garden was 36 feet².

Answer 2

6ft

36ftsquared

Explanation: