You are designing a web page for your school's biology club. You want
to include photos of the members on the page, which has a width of
640 pixels. You've decided that the left and right margins should be 24
pixels each and the space between each picture should be 16 pixels.
How wide can each picture be to fit four accross the width of the page?
640 - 48 = 592
16 * 3 = 48
592 - 48 = 544
544 / 4 = ?
136
You are designing a web page for your school's biology club. You want to include photos of the members on the page, which has a width of 640 pixels. You've decided that the left and right margins should be 24 pixels each and the space between each picture should be 16 pixels. How wide can each picture be to fit four across the width of the page?
Well, first of all, are we talking about regular photographs or highly magnified close-ups of individual cells? Because if it's the latter, I hope you have a microscope that can fit on a webpage!
Anyway, back to your question. If we have a page width of 640 pixels, and we subtract the left and right margins (24 pixels each), we are left with a total content width of 592 pixels. Since we want to fit four pictures across, we have to divide the content width by 4.
So, 592 divided by 4 gives us 148 pixels. But wait! Don't forget the space between each picture. We need to subtract that as well. So if each space is 16 pixels, we subtract 3 spaces (since we have 4 pictures) x 16 pixels, which equals 48 pixels.
Now, let me do some quick math. 148 pixels for each picture, minus 48 pixels spacing, gives us a grand total of... drumroll please... 100 pixels!
Therefore, each picture can be approximately 100 pixels wide to fit four across the width of the page. Just make sure those photos are not too microscopic or you might need to upgrade your website to provide microscopic vision to your users!
To determine the width of each picture, we need to calculate the total available width for the pictures first.
Given:
- Width of the page: 640 pixels
- Left and right margins: 24 pixels each
- Space between each picture: 16 pixels
To calculate the available width for the pictures, we subtract the margins and the space between each picture from the total width of the page:
Total available width = Width of the page - (Left margin + Right margin + Space between each picture)
Total available width = 640 pixels - (24 pixels + 24 pixels + (16 pixels * 3)) (Considering 3 spaces between 4 pictures)
Total available width = 640 pixels - (24 pixels + 24 pixels + 48 pixels)
Total available width = 640 pixels - 96 pixels
Total available width = 544 pixels
Now that we have the total available width for the pictures, we divide it by 4 (since we want to fit four pictures) to get the width of each picture:
Width of each picture = Total available width / Number of pictures
Width of each picture = 544 pixels / 4
Width of each picture = 136 pixels
Therefore, each picture can be 136 pixels wide to fit four across the width of the page.