## Ineedhelpfast12 one year ago For an art project, you are making a square print with a side length of 8 inches. You make a frame using strips of wood. 1 1/4 inches wide. What is the area of the frame?

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@IrishBoy123

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You firstly want to find the length of the frame. To do this, you would go: $length = 8 + \frac{ 5 }{ 4 } + \frac{ 5 }{ 4 } = ? inches$

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Note that 1 1/4 inches = 5/4 inches

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So what would the length of the frame equal to?

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8 10/4, or 10 1/4

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10 2/4

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@butterflydreamer

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yes 8 + 5/4 + 5/4 = 10 2/4 which can be simplified to 10 1/2 = 10.5 (in decimals). So now we know that the length of the frame= 10.5 inches :) So we have this: |dw:1440590381624:dw| So we want to find the area of the frame right? To do this, we find the area of the BIGGER square first . So Area of Big square = 10.5 times 10.5 = ?

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110.5

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110.25

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goood! :) Now area of the smaller square = 8 times 8 = ?

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64

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so then I subtract them and I got 46.25, which is the correct answer! DANKE

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coorreeect! :D Good job :))

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and you're welcome ~