Problem 5 A school is designing their vegetable garden. The school
gardener wrote these two equations to represent the
situation, where w represents the width and /
represents the length:
21 + 2w = 28
1 = 2 + 2w
Solve the system of equations to find the dimensions of
the garden
Width:
Length:

Every weekday, mr. jones bikes from his home to his job. sometimes he rides along two roads, the long route that is shown by the solid lines. other times, he takes the shortcut shown by the dashed line. how many fewer kilometers does mr. jones bike when he takes the shortcut instead of the long route?