SOLUTION: The border of a square photo frame has an equal width of 6 cm.The perimeter of the square photo is 112 cm.What is the area of the border?

Question 352521: The border of a square photo frame has an equal width of 6 cm.The perimeter of the square photo is 112 cm.What is the area of the border?
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The square must have an edge equal to 28 cm. (Divide the perimeter of 112 cm by 4.)
The area of the square photo is then .
Since the border has an equal width of 6 cm, the square photo frame must have an edge equal to . The area of the square photo frame should then be .
Therefore the area of the border is .
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