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 3 1/2 feet longer than the width. How wide should he make the garden?

4.75 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

Perimeter for any rectangular shape is given by 2(length + width).

Fencing the garden means one wiring the garden along  the perimeter.

Thus, it can be concluded that garden has perimeter of 26 feet as given in question.

Let the width be x feet

given that,  He wants the length of the garden to be 3 1/2 feet longer than the width

thus, length of garden = x + 3 1/2 feet = x + 3.5 feet

if length is x+3.5 feet and width is x feet.

Then perimeter = 2( x+3.5 + x) = 2(2x+3.5) = (4x + 7) feet.

This perimeter will be equal to 26 feet fence

thus,

(4x + 7)  = 26

=> 4x = 26 - 7 = 19

=> x = 19/4 = 4.75 feet

x is width of garden.

Thus, he should make the garden 4.75 feet wide.

step-by-step explanation:

i have done this all on a piece of paper but idk how to put it on here cuz it needs to be drawn

75

step-by-step explanation:

you do x-29=46 (the number of cantaloupes sold)

in order to find x, you have to find what minus 29 equals 46, meaning you'd have to add 29 to 46.

29+46=75

if you replace x with 75, the equation looks like:

75-29=46

x=75