A square painting is surrounded by a frame. The outside edges of the frame are x inches in length and there is a 4 inch border between the painting and the frame. What is the total area of the border? My answer was 16x-64 but I am not sure. Is my answer correct?

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anonymous · Answer

@IMStuck  Here's the question.

imstuck · Answer

let me do it and then I will post, ok?

imstuck · Answer

ok you don't have any values for any of the measurements of either the frame or the picture.  Are you looking for just a model of the formula or are you supposed to be actually find the area of tthe border?

imstuck · Answer

*finding

anonymous · Answer

|dw:1405618827979:dw| 

I'm supposed to be finding the total area of the border. Here is the drawing.

imstuck · Answer

i see that but you have no length or width measurements of either the picture or the frame.  We know that the width of the frame is 4 inches, but we don't know the dimensions of the square picture inside it.

anonymous · Answer

That's what confused me too, 
I used the following formula's 

Area of Picture Frame = x times x
Area of Picture = x-2 boarders (8)
I got 16x-64 as the area.

imstuck · Answer

the area formula for the frame would be this:|dw:1405626385177:dw|