Michael is building a fence around his garden to keep the rabbits out. The perimeter of his garden is 42 feet. If the length of the garden is 5 more than the width, what are the dimensions of the fence? Hint: draw a rectangle, and label all 4 sides for the length and width, given what you know this is the last question on my test please help me

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step-by-step explanation:

c.   x=2.4cm

step-by-step explanation:

similar triangles are triangles which have the same shape but not the same size. this means their angle measures are equal but their side lengths are not instead they are proportional. to solve, we will set up a proportion and solve.

a proportion is two equal ratios set equal to each other. we form the ratios by finding corresponding sides (sides which match to each other on both triangles by their position). out ratios will be one side of the small triangle over the corresponding side on the big triangle as shown below:

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to solve the proportion, we'll cross multiply by multiplying numerator with denominator across the equal sign.