SOLUTION: Barney wants to frame a square picture of his dog. The frame he bought fits a picture with a perimeter no greater than 96 cm. He plans to put a 2 cm blue border around the picture

Question 975257: Barney wants to frame a square picture of his dog. The frame he bought fits a picture with a perimeter no greater than 96 cm. He plans to put a 2 cm blue border around the picture
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Do you want to find the outer frame length for either dimension? How does the blue border relate this this?

p perimeter,
x picture length, same for both directions because square picture

Using u as the uniform width for the blue border around picture,
.

Substitute the values given if you want the value.

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