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Sita has a square shaped garage with 228 square feet of floor space. She plans to build an addition that will increase the floor space by 50%. What will be the length of one side of new garage ?

hintHint:

Use the formula of area of square.

The correct answer is: 18.5 ft.


    Complete step by step solution:
    Area of original garage in square shape = 228 ft2
    Let the side of original garage = x
    We know that the formula for area of square = x2…(ii)
    On equating both, we get x2 = 228
    Now take square roots on both the sides, we have x = square root of 228
    rightwards double arrow x space equals space 15.1 space f t
    Hence length of each side of original garage = x = 15ft
    Given that floor space is increased by 50% along with the original garage
    table attributes columnspacing 1em end attributes row cell not stretchy rightwards double arrow 228 plus.50 left parenthesis 228 right parenthesis end cell row cell not stretchy rightwards double arrow 228 plus 114 equals 342 f t end cell end table
    Let the side of new garage = y
    Then, y2 = 342
    Now take square roots on both the sides, we have y = square root of 342
    rightwards double arrow y space equals space 18.49 space f t
    Hence length of one side of the new garage = 18.5 ft.

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