Describe another method you could use to find the number of white tiles it takes to border a garden 12 green tiles long.

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What's your first method?
At a large nursery, a border for a rectangular garden is being built. Designers want the border's length to be 5 ft greater than it's width. A maximum of 180 ft of fencing is available for the border. Write and solve an inequality that describes possible widths of the garden.