Cassidy

Mathematics

19 September, 11:20

Type the correct answer in each box. Spell all words correctly, and use numerals instead of words for numbers. If necessary, use / for the

fraction bar (s).

A cafe owner is designing a new menu and wants to include a decorative border around the outside of her food listings. Due to the cost of

printing the border should have an area of 48 square Inches. The width of the border needs to be uniform around the entire menu. She has

already determined that her food listings will fit within a 13-Inch by 9-inch rectangular area.

The area of the decorative border can be modeled by the following equation, where x represents the width of the decorative border.

Is it reasonable for the border to be 2.5 inches wide?

(yes/no)