SOLUTION: You have made a quilt that is 3 feet by 4 feet. You want to use the remaining 18 square feet of fabric to add a decorative border of uniform width. What should the width of the bor
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Question 898084: You have made a quilt that is 3 feet by 4 feet. You want to use the remaining 18 square feet of fabric to add a decorative border of uniform width. What should the width of the border be? Please help ! Found 2 solutions by josmiceli, josgarithmetic:Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = the width of the uniform border gets added twice to both dimensions, so
I can say:
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Use the quadratic formula:
The width of the border is 1 ft
check:
OK
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The only sense I can make here is that the quilt made covers 3 feet by 4 feet, leaving a path around the quilt on the piece of material unquilted.
x and y, the dimensions of quilted part
w, the width around the quilted part
expect x=3 and y=4.
Total Material Area,
Quilted Area,
Unquilted Area,
The unquilted area is given as 18 square feet to be used for decorative border.
Meaning is .
Substitute the given or expected values x and y,
Choose the factor which has a meaningful solution. .
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