SOLUTION: kendra is using 27 blue patches and some white patches to make a quilt. The quilt has a total area of 540 square inches. EAch patch has an area of 5 square inches. How much of th
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Question 1106023: kendra is using 27 blue patches and some white patches to make a quilt. The quilt has a total area of 540 square inches. EAch patch has an area of 5 square inches. How much of the area of the quilt is white? Explain.
Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
27 x 5 = 135 square inches of blue patches
540 - 135 = 405 square inches will be white
Since each patch is 5 square inches:
405/5 = 81 white patches
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