Question

Liza needs a total of 22.23 square feet of cloth to make a bag and a towel the bag requires 5.13 square feet of cloth the height of the towel is three feet what is the length of towel

Answer 1

5.7 feet

Explanation:

Total cloth area recquired to make a bag and a towel is 22.23 square feet

Given the area of the cloth recquired to make the bag is 5.13 square feet.

The area of cloth recquired to make the towel is = 22.23-5.13=17.1 square feet

given the height of the towel = 3 feet

let the length of the towel be x

We know that
`area = length* height`

area=3x

`3x=17.1\\x=5.7`

therefore the length of the towel is 5.7 feet