SOLUTION: A framer at a photo gallery wants to frame a print with a matte of uniform width all around the print. To make it pleasing to the eye, the area of the matte should equal the area o
Question 825679: A framer at a photo gallery wants to frame a print with a matte of uniform width all around the print. To make it pleasing to the eye, the area of the matte should equal the area of the print. If the print measures 50 cm by 75 cm, how wide should the matte be?
I got an answer that doesn't look right. Please provide me a solution so I can see where I went wrong. Thank you in advance. Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = the width of the matte in cm
On one side, the matte plus print = cm
On the other side:
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The area of matte plus print is: cm2
This area minus the area of the print plus
the area of the matte which also equals
the area of the print cm2 ( I can't use the (-) square root ) cm
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check: cm2
The area of matte plus print is: cm2 cm
The area of the matte or the print
