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Quilting and Algebra Worksheet 2

Youve grown pretty tired of all the weird quilts that have popped up all over the SJS school building. (Remember that the reason youre living in the building is because the internet blew up or something and our civilization has collapsed so you have to now make all your own clothes.) Clearly other people living in the shell of SJS have also been quilting like fiends. You decide you want to tear apart their work because you think its ugly, and you want to use their squares to make prettier quilts. Keep in mind the rules of quilting: (1) The FIRST TIP IN QUILTING is to always start with a square and then build the rectangles onto the square. Keep this in mind as you work through the following quilting activities. (2) Quilts must be rectangular (3) Each quilt is formed out of four smaller rectangular pieces of cloth.

Activity 1: You find a particularly hideous quilt made out of that awful orange square attached to a purple, red and two green rectangles. You want to cut this quilt up into the square and three separate rectangles that made it up so you measure the height and width of the quilt. It comes out that the area of the quilt could be found by multiplying the height: (x+6) by the width (x+4) (a) Find the areas of each of the four pieces of cloth that made up this quilt.

(b) Go ahead and add like terms. You should now have a trinomial.

(c) What two things produced that last number (the only term with no x)?

(d) Look at the linear term (the number thats multiplying x). Where did that linear term come from? How did we get that number?

Activity 2: People seem to love that ugly orange square because theyve been using it in all their quilts. You want to make an orange, blue, and purple quilt, but youve totally run out of cloth. (Yet you may use your colored paper rectangles to see how you could have made your quilt if youd had the cloth.) (a) Give the dimensions of the quilt you want to make (the height and the width.)

You go seek out other squatters living in the SJS building. Jackson, living in the attic, gives you several quilts that hes made. He used different colors than what you have because he has access to all the costumes up there. He gives you permission to cut them up so that you can make your dream quilt. Unfortunately, Naomi stole everyones tape measures (theyre just so shiny. She couldnt resist.) So Jackson can only tell you the dimensions of the bits of cloth that made up each of his quilts: Quilt 1: x2+8x+15 Quilt 2: x2+7x+12 Quilt 3: x2+9x+20 Quilt 4: x2+9x+18

Looking at these you get totally confused. You turn to him and ask why he has only three terms when he should have four terms for the area. He replies that he used his algebra prowess to add like terms just like you did. So for example, he took a quilt like this that has dimensions (x+3) and (x+7): And added all the areas of the cloth to get: x2+3x+7x+21. Then he combined the 3x and the 7x to get 10x. So his final expression for the area of this quilt is: x2+10x+21. (b) Which of his quilts has the same area as the quilt you are trying to make?

x x

3 x

x 7

3 7

(c) You so admire Jacksons quilts that you decide to take all four. You would like to know the dimensions of each one though. Play with your cloth rectangles to try to figure out these dimensions (height and width). (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) Dimensions for Quilt 1: (x+__) and (x+___) Dimensions for Quilt 2: (x+__) and (x+___) Dimensions for Quilt 3: (x+__) and (x+___) Dimensions for Quilt 4: (x+__) and (x+___)

Activity 4: You fell so much in love with Jacksons quilts that you now want more. You know he has a larger variety of cloth up in the attic and you are craving more cloth scraps to work with. So one night, you sneak up into the attic while Jackson is sleeping, and you steal all his remaining quilts. On all of these quilts, Jackson has pegged sticky notes with the area sum of all the different pieces (because he wants to keep track of the different sizes. His goal is to build the worlds largest circus tent and remember, Naomi stole everyones tape measures.) You want to tear apart his quilts and sew them back together to make your own, but first you want calculate a few things. Try drawing the quilts for yourself because none of these quilts can be made from the pieces you have. (a) Stolen Quilt 1: Jacksons note says its area is: x2+5x+6 (i) Find the dimensions (height and width) of the whole quilt

(ii)

Find the areas of each of the four pieces that made up the quilt.

(b) Stolen Quilt 2: Jacksons note says its area is: x2+7x+12 (i) Find the dimensions (height and width) of the whole quilt.

(ii)

Find the areas of each of the four pieces that made up the quilt.

(c) Stolen Quilt 1: Jacksons note says its area is: x2+14x+45 (i) Find the dimensions (height and width) of the whole quilt

(ii)

Find the areas of each of the four pieces that made up the quilt.

(d) Stolen Quilt 1: Jacksons note says its area is: x2+19x+88 (i) Find the dimensions (height and width) of the whole quilt

(ii)

Find the areas of each of the four pieces that made up the quilt.

Activity 5: How do those diamond problems I had you do before we did this activity relate to what youve been doing above?