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A rectangular picture window is 5 ft by 8 ft. Polly wants to put a trim molding around the window. How many feet of molding should she buy?
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A rectangular picture window is 5 ft by 8 ft. Polly wants to put a trim molding around the window. How many feet of molding should she buy?
Thank you so much Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source):
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A picture window is by .
If Polly wants to put a trim molding the window, you need to calculate a perimeter of that picture window in order to find out how many feet of molding should she buy.
let the lenght of window be , and the width be
then:
....substitute and
so, Polly should buy of molding
