Seth has a garden with dimensions 9 feet long times 8 feet wide he wants to enlarge the garden to an area of 120 ft.² how much farther will he need to extend the length of the garden to attain his desired area

6 ft longer (total length of 15ft)

Step-by-step explanation:

the initial dimensions are:

length:

width:

the area area of the garden is given by:

so the original area is:

Since we need the area to be , and we can only change the length, the width will still be 8ft.

We substitute the value of the new area and the width to the equation for the area:

and we clear for the new length:

The length of the garden for the area to be , must be 15ft.

This means that if originally the length was 9 ft, now it has to be 6 ft longer.

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