Areas and Quadratics Name: _________________

You should be able to do all this without calculators, although a calculator may be
useful to check your answers.

1. The picture shows a 3–inch × 5–inch photograph with a uniform frame around it.
a. What is the area of the photograph without the frame? Your
answer will be a number.

b. Write a function that gives the area of the whole thing

(photograph plus frame)? Your answer will be a function of w,
the width of the frame.

c. If the whole thing (photograph plus frame) has an area of 35 square inches, what is w?

2. Mr. Thelen sits down at his Art Desktm with an 8” wide and 11" tall. He draws a uniform border on the
edges of the paper all the way around the page, and then draws a picture inside the border.
Pay careful attention here, because this is different from the photograph problem above. Mr. Thelen is
not expanding the page, the way the frame expanded the photograph; he’s drawing in a smaller rectangle
within the page.
a. Draw Mr. Thelen’s page in the space at the right. This does not
have to be a work of beauty, but—like my drawing of the
photograph and frame above—it should clearly show where the
8½" is, where the 11" is, the border at the edge of the page, and
the picture inside the border.
b. What is the area of Mr. Thelen’s entire page?

c. The picture within Mr. Thelen’s page has an area of 54 square inches. How wide is the border?
3. So there was this right triangle, and its legs had lengths of 4 feet and 5 feet, and
everything was fine. Then some big guys wearing hard hats and overalls came in
late at night and extended the whole thing: they added x feet to the 4-foot side, and
they added 2x feet to the 5-foot side. So now they had a much bigger right triangle,
plus a lot of dust on their overalls.
Remember, as you work this problem, the area of a triangle:
Area = ½ × base × height
a. What is the area of the smaller triangle?

b. If the area of the bigger triangle is 22 square feet, what is x?

4. The picture shows a circular pool with a radius of 12 feet, and a circular deck
around the pool. The area of the whole pool-plus-deck big circle is 400 square
12’ feet. How wide is the deck?
(The area of a circle is A=r2. But you knew that, right?)