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Zoie is painting a picture that is 15 by 27 inches. She plans to frame it in a frame x inches wide.

Write a polynomial that will be the area of the framed picture.

What will be the area of the picture with the frame if x=3?​

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If the width of the painting is w, then its length is 2w. Then, since the frame is 2 inches thick on each side of the painting, its width is w+4 and its length is 2w+4. So the area of the rectangle bounded by the frame (which includes both the area of the frame and the area of the painting) is (w+4)(2w+4).

The area of the painting is w×2w=2w2, and the area of the frame is 196 square inches, so the area of the two combined is 2w2+196. However, that is the same area as the other one I described, so we can then equate the two, i.e. (w+4)(2w+4)=2w2+196. You can then solve that equation for w, and hence find all of the relevant dimensions.

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