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"The perimeter of a rectangle is twice the sum of its length and its width. The perimeter is 46 meters and its length is 2 meters more than twice its width. what is the length?"

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let width =
Let length =
given:


By substitution:








the length is 16 m

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