SOLUTION: you run a total of 36 blocks you run in a rectangle path today your path was twice as long as it was wide how many blocks long and how many blocks wide was today's rectangular pat

Question 733499: you run a total of 36 blocks you run in a rectangle path today your path was twice as long as it was wide how many blocks long and how many blocks wide was today's
rectangular path
Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
we have a rectangular path of 36 blocks - this is a perimeter of a rectangle
in this case the length is twice the width and the perimeter is given by the equation
P = 2w + 2w + w + w = 36 or 6w = 36 and the path was 6 blocks wide and 12 blocks long
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