SOLUTION: You are framing a rectangular print that is 10 inches wide and 34 inches long. You have a place on your wall where you want to put the framed print so you need the print and frame

SOLUTION: You are framing a rectangular print that is 10 inches wide and 34 inches long. You have a place on your wall where you want to put the framed print so you need the print and frame

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Question 572800: You are framing a rectangular print that is 10 inches wide and 34 inches long. You have a place on your wall where you want to put the framed print so you need the print and frame to have an area of 640 square inches. What is the uniform width of the frame so that the framed print fits perfectly in this location.
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Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let

represent the uniform width of the frame. Then if the width of the picture alone is

, then the width of the framed picture must be

because the frame is on both sides. Likewise, the length of the framed picture has to be

Since the area of a rectangle is the length times the width:

FOIL and collect terms:

Divide by 4

Solve the quadratic for

and discard the absurd negative root. Hint: It factors. Another hint: -3 times 25 is -75 and 25 - 3 is 22.

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