SOLUTION: Cynthia Besch wants to buy a rug for a room that is 18 ft wide and 27 ft long. She wants to leave a uniform strip of floor around the rug. She can afford to buy 322 square feet of

Question 1153831: Cynthia Besch wants to buy a rug for a room that is 18 ft wide and 27 ft long. She wants to leave a uniform strip of floor around the rug. She can afford to buy 322 square feet of carpeting. What dimensions should the rug have?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
u, the size of uniform strip around the carpet

and the dimensions are 18-2u and 27-2u.

Note that you may want to look for the two factors of 322 which differ by 9.

Dimensions for the rug:
14 feet and 23 feet

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23 and 14 ?

Otherwise, , the two factors of 322 and differ by 9.
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