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Adding a square. Your school Healthy Eating garden plot is a rectangle measuring 2 meters by x meters. You decide to expand the area for more organic vegetables by adding a large square plot against the side measuring x meters. Write an expression in terms of x that gives the total area of the expanded garden. If the total area is 24 square meters, find x.
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