3415.11 – The Square Community Garden


You see here a square garden bed that has been divided into five rectangular beds (the drawing is not to scale). If one of these gardens if fenced on all four sides, it will take 60 feet of fencing to do it. How much fencing would it take to start over and fence each of the five beds?

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Solution

200 feet.

Question: In the diagram it looks as if all five gardens have equal area. What if some were wider than others?