Yael 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, to the nearest tenth, of one side of the new garage?

18.5 feet.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent side length of new garage.

We have been given Yael 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%.

The area of new garage after 50% increase would be 228 plus 50% of 228.

We know that area of square is product of its side length. We can represent this information in an equation as:

Take square root of both sides:

Therefore, the length of each side of new garage would be 18.5 feet.

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