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.
2 answers:
If you want the original garden dimensions before the gravel border, you need the side length of the current square. Since a square's sides are equal and A = s², 25 ft² = 5², so the new garden's side measures 5 ft. Removing one foot all around means the previous square's side measured 7 ft × 7 ft (not 6 × 6 as might be assumed) — see attachment
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