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Question 217555: a rectangle 24 meters long has the same area as a square that is 12 meters on a side. what are the dimensions of the rectangle?

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Question 217694: Find the dimensions of a rectangle with a perimeter of 54 meters, if its length is 3 meters less than twice its width.
I thought it was:
54=2w-3
54-2w=2w-2w-3
54-2w=-3
54-54-2w=-3+-54
-2w=-57
-2w/-2=-57/-2
w=28.5
but it's not right with the answer in the back of the book
what am I not doing right?
Please help
Thanks Leona
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Question 217778: If the width of a rectangle is 5 inches less than its length, the area is 84 square inches, then how do I go about to dicovering the dimensions of the rectangle? The length and width is not given. all I do know is that the width is five inches less than the length.
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Question 217796: The perimeter of a rectangle is 34 feet, and its width is 6 feet. What is the area of the rectangle?
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Question 217813: find the maximum area of a rectangle with a perimeter of 54 cenimeters
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Question 217813: find the maximum area of a rectangle with a perimeter of 54 cenimeters
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Question 217820: find the maximum area of a rectangle with a perimeter of 54 cenimeters
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Question 217914: A rectangle is twice as wide as it is long. If the area is 162 square meters, what are the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 217896: The length of a rectangle is twice the width. The perimeter is 48 in. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 217986: the perimeter of a rectangle is 10m. Twice the width is equal to one-half the length. find the length and the width?
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Question 218152: the perimeter of a rectangle must not be greater than 30 cm and the length must be 8cm. What is the set of values of the width?

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Question 218308: An area of a rectangle is 108. The ratio of the Width to Length is 3:4. What is the Length and the Width.
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Question 218305: Can someone explain the Gauss-Jordan elimination method to solve this system of linear equations?
2x+ y= 5
4x+ 3y= 11
Is the solution (2,1) or am I wrong? thank you.
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Question 218289: I need to know if my answer is correct for the following: If it isn't, I need to know why. thanks
Solve the system of equations
x+2y=1
3x-2y=11
My answer is (3,-1)
Thank you very much!
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Question 218409: Suppose You Need To Put A Fence Around A Rectangular Garden That Has A Perimeter Of 64 ft. If The Width Is 5ft, Find The Length Of The Garden.
Write The Equation You Will Need To Use To Solve This Problem.
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Question 218394: When you measured your diagonal clothesline across your rectangular porch, you found that it was 1 foot longer than the length of the porch, and 8 ft longer than the width. What are the dimensions of your porch?
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Question 218423: The width of a rectangle is 6 less than twice its length. If the area of the rectangle is 113 cm^2, what is the length of the diagonal?
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Question 218506: The perimeter of a rectangle is 42 inches. The lenth is twice the width. What are the dimensions? What is the area?
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Question 218506: The perimeter of a rectangle is 42 inches. The lenth is twice the width. What are the dimensions? What is the area?
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Question 218967: The length of a rectangle is 5 in. more than the width. If the perimeter is 70in., what is the width?
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Question 219082: The length of rectangle is 9 more than the width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 46 in, find the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 219093: A rectangle has a width of 10 inches and an area of 5 square inches. What is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 219128: the perimeter of a rectangle is 46 cm. the width is 5 more than twice the length. what is the area of the rectangle
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Question 219279: the width of a rectangle is 1/3 of its length. if the perimeter is 96 meters. find its length
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Question 219016: The length of a rectangle is 5 meters longer than its width. If the perimeter of the garden is 50 meters, find the dimensions of the garden.
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Question 219014: The width of rectangle is 5 feet less than its length. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 66 feet, find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 219625: I NEED HELP: THIS IS THE QUESTION!
An NFL playing field is a rectangle. The length of the field (excluding the end zones) is 40 more yards than twice the width. The perimeter of the playing field is 260 yards. What are the dimensions of the field in yards?
WHAT I NEED HELP ON IS CREATING AND EQUATION TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. I CANT FIGURE OUT WHAT "40 MORE YARDS THAN TWICE THE WIDTH" MEANS AND HOW TO PUT THAT INTO AN EQUATION.
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Question 219719: The length of a rectangular garden is 4 cm greater than the width. The area of the garden is 96 cm . Find the length and the width.
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Question 220071: The perimeter of a rectangle is 38 inches.If the length is 3 inches more than the width. Find the width.
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Question 220239: The length of a rectangle if 4 feet less than 4 times the width. If the perimeter is 132, find the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 220315: the area of a rectangle is 54 squar yards. The width is 6 yards. What is the length?
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Question 220547: If the perimeter of the window is 12 ft, what is the area A of the window as a function of the width x of the window?
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Question 220548: If the perimeter of the window is 12 ft, what is the area A of the window as a function of the width x of the window?
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Question 220015: I have the Length and the width of a rectangle, how do I find the height?
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Question 220869: the lenght of a rectangle is five more than the width.If the perimeter of the rectangle is 18 meters,find the dimensions of the rectangle?

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Question 220884: the width of a rectangle is two less than the length.If the perimeter of the rectangle is 28 meters,find the dimension of the rectangle?
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Question 220868: the lenght of a rectangle is five more than the width.If the perimeter of the rectangle is 18 meters,find the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 221127: Find the area of the rectangle.
5 ft. by 10 ft.
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Question 221224: The length of a rectangle is 6 cm more than the width. The area is 11 cm2. Find the length and width.
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Question 221066: the length of a rectangle is 7 in. more than twice its width. its area is 270 in. find the width of the rectangle
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Question 221440: Perimeter of pool is 30ft. Length is twice as long as width. What is lenght?
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