Question

Maria makes a quilt. The main design is 5 feet long on each side. Then she adds a border around the main design. The finished quilt has an area of 36 square feet. Answer the questions to find the width of the quilt's border What is the length of one side of the finished quilt?

Answer 1

length of one side of finished quilt: 6 ft

width of border: 1/2 ft

Explanation:

The original quilt is 5 ft by 5t, so it is a square.

Its area is 25 square feet.

The quilt with the border has an area of 36 square feet.

Each side of the finished quilt is √(36 ft)² long, or 6 ft long.

Since each side of the finished quilt is 6 ft long, and original quilt is 5 ft long, the total length and width the border adds is 1 ft each.

A total of 1 ft added length means the width of the border on each side is 1/2 ft.