SOLUTION: jared is placing chairs around a rectangle stage the stage is 10 feet long and 22 feet wide he want to put a chair at each corner and every 2 feet long the sides how many chairs wi

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Question 967894: jared is placing chairs around a rectangle stage the stage is 10 feet long and 22 feet wide he want to put a chair at each corner and every 2 feet long the sides how many chairs will jared need for his stage?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
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There are chairs at the corners
Along each of the two ft sides:
chair at 2 ft mark
chair at 4 ft mark
chair at 6 ft mark
chair at 8 ft mark
That makes for each ft side
total
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Along each of the two ft sides:
chair at 2 ft mark
chair at 4 ft mark
chair at 6 ft mark
chair at 8 ft mark
chair at 10 ft mark
chair at 12 ft mark
chair at 14 ft mark
chair at 16 ft mark
chair at 18 ft mark
chair at 20 ft mark
That makes chairs for each ft side
total

Jared needes 32 chairs