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 have bought a towel that was 12 inches longer than your width. After a few washes in the wrong detergent, your towel shrunk to a length 8 inches shorter than your original and 3 inches thinner than your original. The area lost is 13 inches square. What were your original dimensions for the towel?
ReplyDeleteThe length of the towel is 3 cm longer than the width. But when I washed it 3 times, alll sides were decresed by 1 cm. The shrunkened area is 100cm squared. What are the dimensions of the original towel?
ReplyDeleteI bought a towel which was 20 inches long, and 15 inches wide. I washed it 5 time, but I found out that it shrinks 0.5 inches on the length, and 0.2 inches on the width every time I washed it. What is the current area f the towel?
ReplyDeleteThe length of your rectangular towel is 5 in. more than the width. After a few washes, it shrunk; the width decreased by 1 in and the length decreased by 2 in. The area that shrunk is 22 squared inches. What are the original dimensions of the towel?
ReplyDeleteThe length of the towel is 2 times the width. The towel shrunk after it was washed. It decreased 3 cm in the length and 4 cm in width when it was washed. What are the dimensions of the towel before it was washed?
ReplyDeleteThe original length of towel was 15cm and width was 10 cm. However, when the towel got wet after drying your body in swimming pool, both length and width got 2cm shrunk. What is the new dimension of the towel?
ReplyDeleteThe length of your towel is 30 centimeters longer than its width. After washing it several times, you found that the length and width had each shrunk by 2 centimeters, and the area had decreased by 216 centimeters. What was the original area of the towel?
ReplyDeleteThe length before the shrinking of your towel was 10 cm longer than the width. After slapping it onto the swimming pool numerous times, the width and the length shrunk 3 cm, and the area decreased 200 cm. What was the original area?
ReplyDeleteTHe length and width of your towel is 30 cm and 40 cm. After drying your body with the towel the towel shrunk by 3 cm in width and length. The area decreased by 100cm squared. What were the original dimensions of the towel?
ReplyDeleteThe new towel you bought is 40cm long and 50cm wide. However, you notice that after washing it, the width and length decreased by 2cm. What is the difference of the area now and before the washing?
ReplyDeleteThe towel you bought was originally 2 times its width, but decreased by 4 cm in length and 5 cm in width after a few washes. The area loses 6 cm square as well. Find the orginal dimensions of the towel.
ReplyDeleteThe length of your rectangular towel is 10cm more than the width. After a few washes, it decreased by 5cm in length and 2cm in width. The area that had shrunk is 80cm squared. Find the original dimensions of the towel.
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