SOLUTION: The primeter of a rectangle is twice the sum of its length and its width. The perimeter is 46 meters and its length is 2 meters more than twice its width.
What is its length?
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Question 244601: The primeter of a rectangle is twice the sum of its length and its width. The perimeter is 46 meters and its length is 2 meters more than twice its width.
What is its length?
Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
2L+2W=46
L=2W+2
2(2W+2)+2W=46
4W+4+2W=46
6W=46-4
6W=42
W=42/6
W=7 ANS.
L=2*7+2=14+2=16 ANS. FOR THE LENGTH.
PROOF:
2*16+2*7=46
32+14=36
36=36
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