A quilt is 72 inches wide and 96 inches long. If the quilt has no border or sashing and the blocks have 4 inch sides, how many blocks run across the width of the quilt? And how many blocks run up and down the length of the quilt?

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iwillanswer iwillanswer · Answer 1 · 2019-11-12T05:51:06+01:00

There are 18 blocks across width and 48 blocks run up and down the length of quilt.

Solution:

Given, A quilt is 72 inches wide and 96 inches long.

The blocks have 4 inch sides

Finding number of blocks run across the width of quilt:

[tex]\text { number of blocks across width }=\frac{\text { width of quilt }}{\text { length of each block }}[/tex]

[tex]=\frac{72}{4}=18 \text { blocks }[/tex]

Finding number of blocks run across length:

[tex]\text { number of blocks across length }=\frac{\text { length of quilt }}{\text { width of each block }}[/tex]

[tex]=\frac{96}{4}=24 \text { blocks. }[/tex]

Finding number of blocks run up and down the length of the quilt:

[tex]\text { number of blocks run up and down }=2 \times \text { number of blocks across length }[/tex]

[tex]=2 \times 24=48 \text { blocks }[/tex]

Hence, there are 18 blocks across width and 48 blocks run up and down the length of quilt