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. Whats the length and area?

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8 June, 05:33

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Yasmine Moses · Answer 1

X equals 6 (6-1) squared equals 25 The area of the original garden would have been 36 square feet 6 x 6 equals 36