Maria makes a quilt. The main design is 5 feet long on each side. Then she adds a border around the main design. The finished quilt has an area of 36 square feet. Answer the questions to find the width of the quilt's border. What is the length of one side of the finished quilt? 2. By how much does the border increase the total length of each side of the quilt? 3. The border goes around the whole quilt. What is the width of the border? Explain how you found your answer. *due to a recent eye operation I am unable to determine handwritten solutions. Please type them out instead...thank
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Maria makes a quilt. The main design is 5 feet long on each side. Then she adds a border around the main design. The finished quilt has an area of 36 square feet.
Answer the questions to find the width of the quilt's border.
- What is the length of one side of the finished quilt?
2. By how much does the border increase the total length of each side of the quilt?
3. The border goes around the whole quilt. What is the width of the border? Explain how you found your answer.
*due to a recent eye operation I am unable to determine handwritten solutions. Please type them out instead...thanks.
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