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On the way to the airport a few years ago, my wife’s car hit a huge hole in a construction area, damaging the front right wheel. Huge. I think there may have been alligators living in it. The temporary tire forced us to decrease our average speed by 15 miles per hour. If the 39-mile drive usually takes us 45 minutes, how much time should we have budgeted for the drive home from the airport?
Generalize your result from Question 7 to solve any problem like this where 1-foot square tiles are bordering a rectangular area with length l feet and width w feet.
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