SOLUTION: The length of a rectangle is 3 less than twice the width. If the area of the rectangle is 25in^2, find the length of each side to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 775473: The length of a rectangle is 3 less than twice the width. If the area of the rectangle is 25in^2, find the length of each side to the nearest hundredth.
Answer by sofiyac(983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let the width be x, then the length is 2x-3 area is width times length so
x(2x-3)=25 solve for x
2x^2-3x-25=0
x=4.37
x=-2.87 obviously we can't have a negative width so we're just going with the first answer so, if width is 4.37 then length would be 2(4.37)-3=5.74
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