SOLUTION: Question: A poster is 25 cm taller than it is wide.It is mounted on a piece of cardboard so that there is a 5 cm border on all sides. If the area of the border alone is 1350 cm squ

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: Question: A poster is 25 cm taller than it is wide.It is mounted on a piece of cardboard so that there is a 5 cm border on all sides. If the area of the border alone is 1350 cm squared, what are the dimensions of the poster?
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Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source):
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lets call the width x and the length y=x+25 of the poster......the cardboard area minus the poster area would give us the area of the border(which is 1350).
the cardboard area would be (x+5)(x+25+5)=(x+5)(x+30)=
the area of the poster is x(x+25)=
:
so =
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cm in width
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cm in length