Question

The 9th-grade class at Georgia High School wanted to go on a field trip to a soda factory. The trip will cost $100. The students decided to write a class newspaper and sell it to the kids at their school. Each of the 20 students will be given a 16-inch square for their article in the newspaper. How many pages long will the newspaper be if they used paper that was 8.5 x 11 inches? Will there be enough room for additional graphics on the pages once the articles have been written? What do you need to know to answer this question?

a) The newspaper will be 5 pages long, and there will be enough room for graphics.
b) The newspaper will be 20 pages long, and there will not be enough room for graphics.
c) The newspaper will be 10 pages long, and there will be enough room for graphics.
d) The newspaper will be 15 pages long, and there will not be enough room for graphics.

Answer 1

Each 16-inch square article will occupy one page of the newspaper, given the layout constraints, resulting in a 20-page newspaper. Option (b) that states the newspaper will be 20 pages long with no room for additional graphics is correct.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many pages the newspaper will be, we need to calculate the area of the articles and then see how many will fit on a standard 8.5 x 11-inch piece of paper.

First, we find the area of one article. A 16-inch square article has an area of 16 inches x 16 inches = 256 square inches.

Next, we calculate the area of each page of newspaper. The area is 8.5 inches x 11 inches = 93.5 square inches. However, we must remember that some of this area will be taken up by margins, so we can't use the entire area for articles. Assuming 1-inch margins on all sides, as per the formatting requirements, we need to subtract 2 inches from both the length and the width (1 inch on each side), giving us a usable space of 6.5 inches x 9 inches = 58.5 square inches per page.

Now, let's see how many article squares can fit in that space. Since each article is a square and cannot be split across pages, only one article can fit on one page. With 20 students, this means we need at least 20 pages.

If we choose option (b), it mentions that the newspaper will be 20 pages long, and there will not be enough room for graphics. This aligns with our calculations, so (b) is correct.