Solve the problem. See Example 1.World's Largest Ice Cream Cake  Carvel Corporation, t...

Solve the problem. See Example 1.

World's Largest Ice Cream Cake  Carvel Corporation, the nation’s first retail ice cream franchise, built the world’s largest ice cream cake in Union Square on May 26, 2004. Weighing 12,096 lb, the cake took 75 min and 54 people to build and assemble. The cake’s length was 10 ft longer than its width, and its perimeter was 56 ft. What were the width and the length of the cake, in feet? (Source: www.gothamist.com)

EXAMPLE 1

FINDING THE DIMENSIONS OF A SQUARE