The manager already hired 9 people. Let be the number of people he still can hire. Since these people will add to the 9 he already hired, when the hiring campaign will be over he will have hired
people. We know that he can't hire more than 14 people, so the number of people hired must be less than or equal to 14:
If we subtract 9 from both sides, we have
so, the manager can hire at most 5 other people
We are given area of the ribbon = 144 square inches.
We know formula for side of a square = .
Plugging value of area in the formula, we get
Side of the square
= 12 inches.
Sonya wants to sew ribbon along each side of a square pillow.
So, we need to find the perimeter of the square pillow.
<h3>Perimeter = 4 × side = 4 × 12 = 48 inches.</h3><h3>Therefore, she buy 48 inches of ribbon to have the exact amount that she needs.</h3>