document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1123166>Question 1123166</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Cynthia Besch wants to buy a rug for a room that is 26 ft wide and 34 ft long. She wants to leave a uniform strip of floor around the rug. She can afford to buy 384 square feet of carpeting. What dimensions should the rug&#8203; have? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "The room is 8 feet longer than it is wide.  If the strip of floor around the rug is uniform, then the rug is also 8 feet longer than it is wide.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "So let the width of the rug be x; then the length is x+8.  And the area of the rug is to be 384:<br><BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Clearly the negative solution does not make sense in the actual problem.  So the width is 16 feet, which means the length is 24 feet. </SPAN>\n" );
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