The length of each side of a square is increased by 6 inches, so the perimeter is now 36 inches. What is the original length of each side of the square?
1 Answer
Aug 17, 2017
See a solution process below:
Explanation:
First, let's call the original length of each side of the square:
The perimeter of a square can be calculated as:
We know each side of the square was increased by 6 inches, so the new length of a side is:
and we know the new perimeter is now 36 inches.
We can substitute this into the formula and solve for
The original length of each side of the square was 3 inches.