A gardener increased the length of a rectangle-shaped garden by 20 percent and decreased its width by 5 percent. The area of the new garden	Choose one
A) has increased by 18 percent  B) has increased by 14 percent  C) has increased by 7 percent  D) is exactly the same as the old area  E) cannot be expressed in percentage terms without actual numbers
Let L be the original length and let W be the original width.   The original area was L*W.   The new area is 0.95W*1.2L = (0.95)(1.2)L*W = 1.14*L*W   The answer is has increased by 14 percent.
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A gardener increased the length of a rectangle-shaped garden by 20 percent and decreased its width by 5 percent. The area of the new garden