Long word problem

Question

Kylie is making a rectangular quilt out of 4 inch squares. So far, her quilt is 36 inches by 56 inches. She wants to add a border around her quilt that is the same number of squares on each side. A standerd twin comfrorter covers approxamately 4800 square inches. How many squares should she add to each side if she wants her quilt to cover the same area? Verify that her quilt will cover the same area.

 

Answer 1

36 x 56 = 2016

 

What are factors of 4800 divisible by 4? How about 60 x 80.

 

60 - 36 = 24 and 80 - 56 = 24. 24/4 = 6, but it's on each side, so 3 squares all the way around.