Question

The area of a newspaper page (opened up) is about 621.96 square inches. Determine the length and width of the page if it’s length is about 1.24 times it’s width. How many inches is the width of the page?

Answer 1

- Let x be the width of the page in inches.

- Then the length of the page is 1.24x inches.

- The area of the page is x * 1.24x = 1.24x^2 square inches.

- We know that the area is about 621.96 square inches, so we can set up an equation:

- 1.24x^2 = 621.96

- To solve for x, we need to divide both sides by 1.24 and then take the square root:

- x = sqrt(621.96 / 1.24)

- x = sqrt(501.58)

- x = 22.4 (rounded to one decimal place)

- Therefore, the width of the page is about **22.4 inches**.

- The length of the page is 1.24 * 22.4 = 27.8 (rounded to one decimal place)

- Therefore, the length of the page is about **27.8 inches**.

I hope this helps you understand how to solve this problem.