Question

HELPPPPP NEEDED FIRST GETS BRAINLLEST !!!! Your dad is designing a new garden for your backyard. He has 26 feet of fencing to go around the garden. He wants the length of the garden to be 3½ feet longer than the width. How wide should he make the garden? A- 2 3/4 B- 3 3/4 C- 4 1/4 D- 4 3/4

Answer 1

D

Explanation:

Let's call the width of the yard x and the length x + 3½. Since we know that perimeter = 2 * (width + length) and that the perimeter must be 26 we can write:

2 * (x + x + 3½) = 26

x + x + 3½ = 13

2x + 3½ = 13

2x = 9½

x = 4
`(3)/(4)`