SOLUTION: The length of a rectangle is 3 times the width. The perimeter is 96cm. Find the width and the length?
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Question 1124294: The length of a rectangle is 3 times the width. The perimeter is 96cm. Find the width and the length?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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So Perimeter as a function of width is:
\ =\ 2(3w)\ +\ 2w)
Set the function equal to the given perimeter and solve for 
, then calculate 
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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