Designing a House The figure at right, above shows plans for a rectangular basement of a house. The dots represents poles in the ground and the lines represent string that has been attached to the poles. The length of the basement is to be 30 feet greater than the width. If a total of 310 feet of string was used to mark off the rooms, determine the width and length of the basement.
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