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Revision as of 18:33, 28 October 2020
Problem
Carl decided to fence in his rectangular garden. He bought fence posts, placed one on each of the four corners, and spaced out the rest evenly along the edges of the garden, leaving exactly
yards between neighboring posts. The longer side of his garden, including the corners, has twice as many posts as the shorter side, including the corners. What is the area, in square yards, of Carl’s garden?
Solution 1
If the dimensions are , then one side will have
posts (including corners) and the other
.
The total number of posts is .
Solve the system to get
. Then the area is
which is
.
Solution 2
To do this problem, we have to draw a rectangle. We also have to keep track of the fence posts. Putting a post on each corner leaves us with only posts. Now there are twice as many posts on the longer side then the shorter side. From this we can see that we can put
posts on the longer side and
posts on the shorter side. On the shorter side, we have
spaces between the
posts. On the longer side, we have 7 spaces between the 8 fence posts. There are
yards between each post. Therefore, the answer is
.
Video Solution
~savannahsolver
See Also
2016 AMC 10B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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Followed by Problem 12 | |
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