Lonna made a quilt for her cousin's doll. The quilt had a 7 × 7 array of different color square patches. If each patch is 1

Question

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in long, what is the area of the whole quilt?

Answer 1

The length of the quilt is 7 x 1 3/4, 1 3/4 as an improper fraction is 7/4
so the length is
7 x 7/4
= 49/4
The area is the lenght times the width (for the square quilt)
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Answer 2

7*7*(7/4)^2 = 4901/16 in^2

Answer 3

2 1/4*2 1/4