SOLUTION: The area of a rectangle is 40sqaure inches the boarder around the rectangle is 26 inches what is the length and width of the rectangle

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Question 891019: The area of a rectangle is 40sqaure inches the boarder around the rectangle is 26 inches what is the length and width of the rectangle

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
"border around" is perimeter.

w for width
L for length
and
Some simplification and then substitution:


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Discriminant is

or

In this case, either dimension is 5 and the other dimension is 8.

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