SOLUTION: The area of a rectangle is 24 square meters. Find the length and width of the rectangle if its length is 2 meters greater than its width. Use an equation and the formula � area of

Question 114005: The area of a rectangle is 24 square meters. Find the length and width of the rectangle if its length is 2 meters greater than its width. Use an equation and the formula � area of a rectangle = (width)(length).
Answer by JessicaGill(40) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Formula
If we assign w to the width, then we know that the lenght (l) is equal to 2*w. So we could write the equation out as such
First simplify to Leave off the m^2 for sake of ease.
Now we must divide both sides by 2
Result

Now to further simplify we need to take the square root of each side
Result

If we plug this value back in to the formula we will get

This is approximate as the decimals are quite long.
Thanks,
Ms. G
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