24. A rectangular parking lot has a length that is 3 yards greater than the width. The area of the parking lot is 180 square yards. Find the length and the width.
25. Each side of a square is lengthened by 3 inches. The area of this new, larger square is 64 square inches. Find the length of a side of the original square.
26. Each side of a square is lengthened by 2 inches. The area of this new, larger square is 36 square inches. Find the length of a side of the original square.
27. A poal measuring 10 meters by 20 meters is surrounded by a path of uniform width. If the area of the pool and the path combined is 600 square meters, what is the width of the path?
28. A vacant rectangular lot is being turned into a community vegetable gardan measuring 15 meters by 12 meters. A path of uniform width is to surround the garden. If the area of the lot is 378 square meters, find the width of the path surrounding the garden.
29. As part of a landscaping project, you put in a flower bed measuring 20 feet by 30 feet. To finish off the project, you are putting in a uniform border of pire bark around the outside of the reclangular garden. You have enough pine bark to cover 336 square feet. How wide should the border be?
30. As part of a landscaping project, you put in a flower bed measuring 10 feet by 12 feet. You plan to surround the bed with a uniform border of low-growing plants that require 1 square foot each when mature. If you have 168 of these plants, how wide a strip around the flower bed should you prepare for the
border?