Your school football team wants to make a new banner to display at the district tournament. The banner will be dark red, with a white ribbon border. The length of the banner needs to be 15 feet. What are the possible widths of the banner, if the entire length of ribbon used for the border can be no more than 46 feet?

1. The ribbon goes around the outside of the banner. The banner has the length of 15 feet and an unknown width. Write an EXPRESSION to describe the length of ribbon that will be needed. Remember, the perimeter of a rectangle is twice the length plus twice the width. Use "W" to represent the width.

2. The length of ribbon available is 46 feet. Write an INEQUALITY that compares your expression from part 1 with the length of ribbon available.

Question

Your school football team wants to make a new banner to display at the district tournament. The banner will be dark red, with a white ribbon border. The length of the banner needs to be 15 feet. What are the possible widths of the banner, if the entire length of ribbon used for the border can be no more than 46 feet?

1. The ribbon goes around the outside of the banner. The banner has the length of 15 feet and an unknown width. Write an EXPRESSION to describe the length of ribbon that will be needed. Remember, the perimeter of a rectangle is twice the length plus twice the width. Use "W" to represent the width.

2. The length of ribbon available is 46 feet. Write an INEQUALITY that compares your expression from part 1 with the length of ribbon available.

Vocaloid · Answer

1. The amount of ribbon is the same as the perimeter, which as they tell you is twice the length plus twice the width. Using L = 15 and W as the unknown width, see if you can write the perimeter expression

Vocaloid · Answer

For the inequality simply set the expression from part 1 as less than or equal to 46