SOLUTION: The area of a rectangle is 96. The length is 6, and the width is . What is the value of x? What is the width of the rectangle? (Hint: The area of a rectangle is equal to length tim

Question 189594: The area of a rectangle is 96. The length is 6, and the width is . What is the value of x? What is the width of the rectangle? (Hint: The area of a rectangle is equal to length times width.)
Answer by Kalmetam(43) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since 96 is the Area

and since 6 is the Length

Get rid of the 6 by dividing it out, you will also divide 6 from 96, since what you do on one side, you do to the other.

So W must equal, 16.

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