The area of Kamila’s rectangular living room is 2.5 times the area of her square bedroom. The length of the living room is 18 feet and its width is 1.25 times the length of a side of the bedroom.

Create a diagram representing Kamila’s living room and her square bedroom. Assign variables to any unknown sides and label the diagram.
Find the length of one side of Kamila’s bedroom.
In your final answer, include your diagram, and all formulas, equations and calculations necessary to solve for the length of Kamila’s bedroom.

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Question

The area of Kamila’s rectangular living room is 2.5 times the area of her square bedroom. The length of the living room is 18 feet and its width is 1.25 times the length of a side of the bedroom.

Create a diagram representing Kamila’s living room and her square bedroom. Assign variables to any unknown sides and label the diagram.
Find the length of one side of Kamila’s bedroom.
In your final answer, include your diagram, and all formulas, equations and calculations necessary to solve for the length of Kamila’s bedroom.



first person to do this i will medal

ben00 · Answer

So first find the area. like the area of the living room.

ben00 · Answer

18 x 1.25 = 22.5
18 x 22.5 = 408

ben00 · Answer

Then do 408 times 2.5 to find Kamila's living room area.
Do 408 x 2.5 =

ben00 · Answer

Actually its 405 x 2.5 sorry about that.

ben00 · Answer

So yeah, thats the area. Do the rest for yourself and medal me if I helped.

1davey29 · Answer

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