Asked by claire

A large picture,2m by 2m,is displayed on a wall.It is place in a frame with a border of uniform width.

A. How would you represent the length of side of the frame?

B. What expression represent the area of the frame?
Answered by Steve
see your previous post of this question. What do you not understand about what I said there?
Answered by claire
Can you please answer my question.
Answered by Steve
ok. the picture has length 2 and width 2
There is a frame of width w all around. So, now the length is w+2+w and the width is w+2+w, or 2+2w

So, the area (which I am sure you know is length * width) is just

(2+2w)(2+2w) = (2+2w)^2 = 4(w+1)^2
Answered by claire
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