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Question 1174527: Wally Beige has painted a rectangular mural that is 8 ft tall and 12 ft wide. He plans to paint a border of equal width all the way around the outside of the mural. To end up with a border that has an area of 224
square ft, find the width of the border. Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, josgarithmetic:Answer by ikleyn(52786) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
Wally Beige has painted a rectangular mural that is 8 ft tall and 12 ft wide. He plans to paint a border of equal width
all the way around the outside of the mural. To end up with a border that has an area of 224 square ft, find the width of the border.
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It is strange to me to read it, because, according to the description,
the partial area of 224 square feet is greater than the whole area of 8*12 = 96 square feet.
It is absurdist (if not to say worst) way to describe a problem.
It recalls me a report from a mad-house, where one of personages/habitants
stated that inside of the Earthen sphere, there is another globe even greater diameter.
This passage is from one well known classic humoristic literature work,
and it is a FULL analogue to what I see in this post.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! uniform width of border, u
total area of border and mural,
area JUST the border, -------simplify and solve this.
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