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Question 891291: how to solve this? the length and width of a rectangle are consecutive even integers. the area of the rectangle is 120 cm. find the length and the width

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The consecutive even integers would be and .



Two solutions but only the positive solution makes sense for this problem.


So the two integers are 10 and 12.

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