Question

The perimeter of a rectangular pool is 180 yes. The length is 10yds more than the width. Find the length and the width of the pool

Answer 1

Width: 85 yards

Length: 95 yards

Explanation:

Ok, so we need to make an equation for this problem. Let's call the width, w. We know that the length is 10 more than the width, so we can call it w +10.

180 = w + w + 10

Now, i order to isolate the w's we need to subtract 10 from each side.

170 = 2w

Now, we just have to divide by 2 on both sides.

W = 85

So we now know that the width is 85 and because the length is 10 more, the length is 95 yds.