Catalina paints with watercolors on a sheet of paper a = 22 inches wide by b = 17 inches high. She then places this sheet on a mat so that a uniformly wide strip of the mat shows all around the picture. The perimeter of the mat is 102 inches. How wide is the strip of the mat showing around the picture?


Answer: 3

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