5. Carlotta is helping her grandfather center a large framed picture on his living room wall. As shown in the figure below, the rectangular wall is 24 feet long, and the rectangular framed picture is 4.5 feet high and 7.5 feet long. The left edge of the frame will be x feet from the left edge of the wall, and the right edge of the frame will be x feet from the right edge of the wall. What is the value of x ?
Your Answer is
Correct Answer is A
Explanation
First see that x only appears in the length of the rectangle, so we only pay attention to the horizontal length relationship of the rectangle, and then we can get the column formula x+7.5+x=24