SOLUTION: Please help me this problem it reads on the home woke sheet What are the side lengths of the rectangle? Area=40 in. Perimeter=48 in.

Question 961523: Please help me this problem it reads on the home woke sheet
What are the side lengths of the rectangle? Area=40 in. Perimeter=48 in.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Known: A, area and p, perimeter of a rectangle.
Unknown: x and y dimensions.

and you can continue with this in symbolic form, but you can find the specific result for your example faster if you substitute the given A and p NOW.

START FIX:

416=4*104=4*2*52=4*2*4*13=4^2*26

Take your pick for which dimension is x and which is y; but the two dimensions are and .

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