SOLUTION: Ali paints with watercolors on a sheet of paper 20 in. wide by 15 in. high. He then places this sheet on a mat so that a uniformly wide strip of the mat shows all around the pictur
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Question 1047619: Ali paints with watercolors on a sheet of paper 20 in. wide by 15 in. high. He then places this sheet on a mat so that a uniformly wide strip of the mat shows all around the picture. The perimeter of the mat is 94 in. How wide is the strip of the mat showing around the picture? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = the width of the strip
The long dimension of the mat is:
The short dimension of the mat is:
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Using the definition of perimeter,
The strip of the mat showing
around the picture is 3 inches
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