SOLUTION: Find the iength and width or a rectanguler lot with a perimeter of 88 meters if the length is 4 meters more than the width.

SOLUTION: Find the iength and width or a rectanguler lot with a perimeter of 88 meters if the length is 4 meters more than the width.

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Question 152097: Find the iength and width or a rectanguler lot with a perimeter of 88 meters if the length is 4 meters more than the width.
Answer by orca(409) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the width be x, then the length is x + 4.
Its perimeter is 2x + 2(x + 4)
As the perimeter is 88, we have
2x + 2(x + 4) = 88
Solving for x, we have
2x + 2x + 8 = 88
4x = 80
x = 20
So the width is 20, the length is 24.

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