SOLUTION: please help me solve this: the area and the perimeter have to be the same on a rectangle what could they be?

Question 243000: please help me solve this: the area and the perimeter have to be the same on a rectangle what could they be?
Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, checkley77:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Area = xy
Perimeter = 2(x+y)
------------
2x + 2y = xy
The solution can be any point on the hyperbola where both x and y are positive.
Also (0,0) is a solution.
Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Area=perimeter.
xy=2x+2y
xy=2(x+y)
3*6=2(3+6)
18=2*9
18=18
RELATED QUESTIONS
Please help me solve this equation : A rectangle has an area of 40 square units and... (answered by richwmiller)
Please help me to solve this word problem: A square and a rectangular plot of land... (answered by jessica43)
Please could you help me with a question that I have been set. The question is the... (answered by vleith)
'In rectangle ABCD, two consecutive sides and the diagonal are all consecutive integers.... (answered by richwmiller)
Please help me with this. I don't get the formula. I could guess and probably come up... (answered by checkley75)
I have been struggling on this word problem for a while now and I was wondering if anyone (answered by solver91311,stanbon)
find the dimensions of a rectangle with perimeter 36 square units and area 65 square... (answered by stanbon,mananth)
They gave me this word problem: I'm thinking of a number. The square of this number is... (answered by Edwin McCravy,richwmiller)
Zaria and Maisie joined the National Math Club, and during the first club meeting they... (answered by stanbon)