Question

A quilt is 72 inches wide and 96 inches long. If the quilt has no border or sashing and the blocks have 4 inch sides, how many blocks run across the width of the quilt? And how many blocks run up and down the length of the quilt?

Answer 1

There are 18 blocks across width and 48 blocks run up and down the length of quilt.

Solution:

Given, A quilt is 72 inches wide and 96 inches long.

The blocks have 4 inch sides

Finding number of blocks run across the width of quilt:

`\text { number of blocks across width }=\frac{\text { width of quilt }}{\text { length of each block }}`

`=(72)/(4)=18 \text { blocks }`

Finding number of blocks run across length:

`\text { number of blocks across length }=\frac{\text { length of quilt }}{\text { width of each block }}`

`=(96)/(4)=24 \text { blocks. }`

Finding number of blocks run up and down the length of the quilt:

`\text { number of blocks run up and down }=2 * \text { number of blocks across length }`

`=2 * 24=48 \text { blocks }`

Hence, there are 18 blocks across width and 48 blocks run up and down the length of quilt