SOLUTION: A rug 4 meters by 5 meters covers 2/3 of the floor area in a room. The rug touches two walls, leaving a strip of uniform width around the other two walls. How wide is the strip?
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If the rug is 4 ft by 5 ft, then the area covered by the rug is 20 square feet, which is 2/3 of the unknown total area of the room, so:
So the area not covered by the rug is 30 - 20 = 10 square feet.
Let the width of the uncovered strip be x. The uncovered strip is an L shaped area that can be divided into three pieces. One piece is 5 ft by x feet, another piece is 4 feet by x feet, and the little piece in the corner is x feet by x feet. The area of the three pieces are 5x, 4x, and . The sum of the areas of these three pieces must be 10 square feet, thus:
Put in standard form:
Solve the quadratic by factoring and exclude the extraneous negative root. The positive root will be the width of the uncovered strip.
