Cynthia besch wants to buy a rug for a room that is 19 ft wide and 27 ft long. She wants to leave a uniform strip of floor around the rug. She can afford to buy 345 Square feet of carpeting. What dimensions should the rug have?

Answer 1

If there is a strip of width x all around the rug, then
(19-2x)(27-2x) = 345
find x, then you can get the dimensions of the rug from the equation