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SAT Math: Solving a Quadratic Equation to Calculate Pool Deck Width 32 Views


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The swimming pool in the diagram above is being renovated to include a wooden deck of equal width, x meters, around it. After installing the deck, the combined area of the pool and the deck is 152.25 m2. What is the width, x, of the deck in meters?


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Yeah Eighty six and change their equal zero all right

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seat Now that's quadratic Unfortunately this equation seems a bit

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too messy to factor so we can solve for acts

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by substituting the coefficients of our equation into the quadratic

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formula And here's that formula We get negative b plus

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money and square to b squared minus four a c

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over two a and we just kind of plug in

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the numbers and we get this nigga forty plus or

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minus forty squared minus four times four and then the

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fifty six and change there and then to for and

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then reduces down about forty and then sixteen hundred Odd

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There we go Negative forty plus or minus square with

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twenty five hundred Well we know that's fifty produced that

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right away You get negative forty plus or minus fifty

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and that gets us over eight there So access either

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ten eighths or negative ninety eight That's kind of weird

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While the quadratic

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