SOLUTION: If a rectangle has a length that is 5 more than the width and the area is 200cm squared, what is the length and width?

SOLUTION: If a rectangle has a length that is 5 more than the width and the area is 200cm squared, what is the length and width?

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Question 944679: If a rectangle has a length that is 5 more than the width and the area is 200cm squared, what is the length and width?
Answer by amarjeeth123(569) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the width be x.
Then the length is (x+5).
x(x+5)=200
x^2+5x-200=0
x=11.86.
Length is 16.86
Width is 11.86.

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