You just bought a very comfortable rectangular towel, but after a few washes, it shrunk! Now your towel has decreased by a certain area.
Write a word problem that will force the reader to find the original dimensions of the towel. Before you post the comment, make sure the problem actually makes sense!
(Hint: Start by making up the original dimensions of the towel first.)
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You buy a towel 4cm longer than the width. After, a few washes, you find that it has shrunk. It is now 2cm shorter in length and width. If the dimensions of the new towel is 8cm by 10cm, find the dimension of the original towel before it shrunk.
ReplyDeleteOne day, your towel was 4cm longer than its width. But after a few laundries, its length and width was decreased by 2cm each. Your are had decreased by 24 cm. What is the dimension of your original towel
ReplyDeleteThe towel was 10 cm longer than its width. After being washed a couple times it got thinner by 4 cm and shorter by 4 cm. If the towel shrunk by 40 cm2, what were the original dimensions of the towel?
ReplyDeleteYou buy a rectangular towel. It is 4cm longer than wide. After a few washes, you find that it has shrunk by 2cm in width and length. The new dimension of the towel is 10cm and 6cm. Find the dimensions of the original towel.
ReplyDeleteYou buy a rectangular towel. It is 4cm longer than wide. After a few washes, you find that it has shrunk by 2cm in width and length. The new dimension of the towel is 10cm and 6cm. Find the dimensions of the original towel.
ReplyDeleteYou buy a rectangular towel. Your towel's length is 2 times the width. After going through the laundry, the length and the width decreased by 4 cm. If the area shrunk
ReplyDeleteby 56 cm2, what is the dimensions of the original rectangle?
You have a towel with it's length 13cm longer than it's width. After washing it too many times, it shrank 110cm2. It was also mysteriously shrunk 5cm each side. what was the original towel size?
ReplyDeleteThe regular towel that was bought has a length that is two times longer than its width. When it was washed, the length and width became 2 cm shorter. If the area of the shrunken towel is 60 cm2, what is its regular towel's area?
ReplyDeleteThe towel you always used had shrink as it was washed. Towel's length had decreased in 3cm and width had decreased 5cm. If the area of shrunken towel is 169cm 2. What is the area of regular towel?
ReplyDeleteYou have a towel that has a length two times the width. You washed the towel too many times that it shrunk. If the towel shrunk by 5cm on each side and it shrunk by 12cm2, what are the original dimensions of the towel?
ReplyDeleteYou bought a towel that had a length 2 cm greater than the width. The length decreased by 1 cm because it shrunk. Therefore, the area of the shrunken towl was 40. What was the original area of the towl?
ReplyDeleteYou have a towel that is 6cm longer than the width. After you wash the towel, both the length and width shrunk 2cm. If the area after it got shrunk was 50cm2, find the original dimensions of the towel.
ReplyDeleteYou buy a towel which is 4cm longer than it is wide. After you washed the towel with hot water, the towel shrunk by 3 in width and by length. Now , the towel is 80cm2 in area. Find the original dimensions before it shrunk.
ReplyDeleteThe original towel is 8cm longer than width. After you washed the towel with hot water the towel shrunk in 2cm width&length. The area of towel now is 90cm2. Find the original dimensions.
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