SOLUTION: Please help me solve this..... The width of a rectangle is 6 meters less than its length. The area is 315 square meters. Find the length of the rectangle.

Question 689435: Please help me solve this..... The width of a rectangle is 6 meters less than its length. The area is 315 square meters. Find the length of the rectangle.
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

given:
The width of a rectangle is than its length .

The area is .
to find: the length

as you know .......plug in given values

.....use quadratic formula to solve for

.........find only positive root because the length cannot be negative

.....your answer
we can find the width too:

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