Please Help! After one side of a square flower bed was enlarged by 2 ft and the other side was enlarged by 3 ft, the area of a new flower bed became twice the area of an old one. How long was the side of the old flower bed?​

The problem says we have a square flower bed to start out with.

Let's have the sides of the squares be "x". The area of this original flower bed is .

Then, one side of the square is enlarged by 2ft, and another side 3ft. Our new flower bed dimensions are now (x+2) and (x+3). Multiply (x+2) and (x+3) to find the area, which gets you .

We also know that the new area of the flower bed is twice the size of the original flower bed. Multiply the original area by 2, you get .

With the new area and the doubled original area, we can now make an equation:

Solve for x,  you get 6.

Hope this explanation helped, maybe a bit too many details but there's your answer, 6!

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