SOLUTION: Pierre folded a square piece of paper vertically to make 2 rectangles. Each rectangle had a perimeter of 39 inches. How long is each side of the original square? What is the area o

SOLUTION: Pierre folded a square piece of paper vertically to make 2 rectangles. Each rectangle had a perimeter of 39 inches. How long is each side of the original square? What is the area o

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Question 958562: Pierre folded a square piece of paper vertically to make 2 rectangles. Each rectangle had a perimeter of 39 inches. How long is each side of the original square? What is the area of the original square? What is the area of one of The rectangles?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, the side lengths of the original square. The folding into two rectangles makes each of perimeter . The length of the square's sides was 13.
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