SOLUTION: Brady wants to buy a rug for a room that is 10 ft wide and 15 ft long. He wants to leave a uniform strip of floor around the rug. He can afford to buy 100 ft2
. How wide of a bord
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Question 1141591: Brady wants to buy a rug for a room that is 10 ft wide and 15 ft long. He wants to leave a uniform strip of floor around the rug. He can afford to buy 100 ft2
. How wide of a border can he have? (The area in gray is 100 ft2). You will need to use the quadratic formula.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The rug + the border must fit in the 10 x 15 room
Let = the area of the rug
Let = the width of the border
ft2
ft is the minimum width of the border
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error due to rounding off
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