SOLUTION: Let's say you have a rectangle and you would like to find the area of it in square units. The width is 7 units but the length us (2x-5) units. What do you do to find the area? It i

Question 238377: Let's say you have a rectangle and you would like to find the area of it in square units. The width is 7 units but the length us (2x-5) units. What do you do to find the area? It is a TAKS question and I would really appreciate your help, thank you.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's say you have a rectangle and you would like to find the area of it in square units. The width is 7 units but the length us (2x-5) units. What do you do to find the area?
Area = width*length
Area = 7*(2x-5)
Area = 14x-35 sq.units
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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