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bob is going to paint a masterpiece using watecolors on a sheet of paper 20 in wide and 15 in tall. When he finishes, he plans to place his masterpiece on a matt so that a uniformly wide strip of the matt shows all around the picture. The perimter of the matt is 102 in. How wide is the strip around the edge of the masterpiec\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "width of the paper= 20 inches\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "length of the paper = 15 inches\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Perimeter of the uniform matt = 102 inches\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "4*side = 102 inches\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "side = 102/4\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "side = 24.4 inches \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "So width = 24.4 inches \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Width of the strip =(width of the matt-width of the paper)/2\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " =( 24.4-20) /2\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " = 4.4/2
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\n" ); document.write( " = 2.2inches \r
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