SOLUTION: A house has two rooms of equal area. One room is square and the other room is a rectangle 4ft narrower and 5ft linger then the square one. Find the area of each room.
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: A house has two rooms of equal area. One room is square and the other room is a rectangle 4ft narrower and 5ft linger then the square one. Find the area of each room.
This question is from textbook Algebra Structure and Method
Answer by checkley71(8403) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
X^2=(X-4)(X+5)
X^2=X^2-4X+5X-20
0=X-20
X=20 FOR THE SIDES OF THE SQUARE ROOM THEN THE RECTANGLE ROOM IS
20-4=16 & 20+5=25
THE SQUARE ROOM HAS 20*20=400 SQUARE FEET
THE RECTANGLE ROOM HAS 16*25=400 SQUARE FEET
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