Cynthia besch wants to buy a rug for a room that is 19 ft wide and 22 ft long. she wants to leave a uniform strip of floor around the rug. she can afford to buy 108 square feet of carpeting. what dimensions should the rug have?

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.