SOLUTION: A designer, attempting to arrange the characters of his artwork in the form of a square grid with equal number of rows and columns, found that 24 characters were left out. When he
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Question 200499: A designer, attempting to arrange the characters of his artwork in the form of a square grid with equal number of rows and columns, found that 24 characters were left out. When he tried to add one more row and column, he found that he was short of 25 characters. Can you find the number of characters used by the designer?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A square grid tells us that the dimensions are n x n. So the total area of the square grid is . Since 24 characters were left out, this means that the total number of characters are .
Since the designer added one "one more row and column", this makes the new area . Since he was short 25 characters, this means that the expression then becomes
Now set the two expressions equal to one another
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Subtract from both sides. Subtract from both sides.
Combine like terms.
Add to both sides.
Combine like terms on the right side.
Divide both sides by to isolate .
Reduce.
Now go back to the first expression
Plug in
Simplify
So the designer used 600 characters.
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