SOLUTION: Choose a variable to represent one unknown. Then write and expression that represents the other unknown. The rectangle is 6 units longer than it is wide. Express the lengeth and wi

Question 126750: Choose a variable to represent one unknown. Then write and expression that represents the other unknown. The rectangle is 6 units longer than it is wide. Express the lengeth and width of this rectangle.
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The rectangle is 6 units longer than it is wide:
let the lenght be and the width be , then

or

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