SOLUTION: All paints with watercolors on a sheet of paper 26 inches wide by 18 inches high. He then places
this sheet on a mat so that a uniformly wide strip of the mat shows all around the
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Question 1166340: All paints with watercolors on a sheet of paper 26 inches wide by 18 inches high. He then places
this sheet on a mat so that a uniformly wide strip of the mat shows all around the picture. The
perimeter of the mat is 104 inches. How wide is the strip of the mat showing around the picture?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If the border is uniform in width and that width is 
, then the dimensions of the mat must be 
by 
. Since the formula for the perimeter is 
, substitute the expressions representing the length and width of the mat for 
and 
and then 104 for 
and solve for
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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