You are the manager at the town pool. You need to build a fence around the new children's pool area. The pool is 5 feet wide by 8 feet long. You want the fence to be the same distance "x ft" from all sides of the pool, except you need to put a lifeguard chair at one end of the width, so the fence should be twice as far away from the pool on that one side. How many linear feet of fencing must you buy? (Use an algebraic approach to receive credit for your solution)

It is a polygon with four sides. The total interior angle is 360 degrees. A rectangle's opposite sides are parallel and equal, and each angle is 90 degrees. Its diagonals are all the same length and intersect in the center.

You are the manager of the town pool.

You need to build a fence around the new children's pool area.

The pool is 5 feet wide by 8 feet long.

You want the fence to be the same distance "x ft" from all sides of the pool, except you need to put a lifeguard chair at one end of the width, so the fence should be twice as far away from the pool on that one side.

Then the length of the fence which needs to be put around the pool will be

P = 2 (5 + 8)

P = 2 x 13

P = 26 ft

Then the length of the fence which needs to be put around the pool will be 26 feet.

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