SOLUTION: Find the length and width of a rectangle whose perimeter is 32 feet and whose area is 55 square feet

Question 1103635: Find the length and width of a rectangle whose perimeter is 32 feet and whose area is 55 square feet
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Any simple possibilities?
11 and 5 ?
Just the factorization for 55.
This combination works.
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Length, 11
Width, 5.
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Do you want Algebra instead?

------and use either general solution or factoring.
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