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Question 238377: Let's say you have a rectangle and you would like to find the area of it in square units. The width is 7 units but the length us (2x-5) units. What do you do to find the area? It is a TAKS question and I would really appreciate your help, thank you.
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Question 238418: A square has 3 cm in length.
What is the perimeter if the square?

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Question 238717: ABCD is a rectangle, and its length is twice its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 60 units. P, Q, R, and S are the midpoints of each side. What is the area of the quadrilateral PQRS?
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Question 238752: If the area of a rectangle is x^2+7x+10, what are the dimensions of said rectangle
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Question 238808: the perimeter of a rectangle is 62m. if the lenght is 4m more than width find the lenght and the width
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Question 237934: The length of a rectangular garden is 3 yd. more than twice its width. The perimeter of the garden is 36 yd. What are the width and length of the garden?
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Question 238965: The length of a rectangle is five times its width. if the perimeter of the rectangle is 72 cm, find its area?
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Question 239058: How do I find the length and width of a rectangle with a perimeter of 82 inches and a diagonal of 29 inches?
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Question 239304: i have a math problem that says my yard is 20 by 30 feet and i want to put a flower bed that boarders the yard. if the width is constant and i have 187ft^2 of flowers what is the width of the flower bed
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Question 239828: the width of a rectangle is one half its length. The perimeter of the rectangle is 54 cm. What are the width and length of the rectangle?
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Question 239827: the length of a rectangle is 8in. more than its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 54 cm. What are the width and length of the rectangle
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Question 239957: the length of a rectangle is 3 meters longer than the width. if the area is 28 square meters, what are the rectanles dimensions?
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Question 240052: A painting covers 44 square inches one side of the painting is 3 inches more than twice the other side find the dimensions of the painting
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Question 240052: A painting covers 44 square inches one side of the painting is 3 inches more than twice the other side find the dimensions of the painting
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Question 240049: Find the dimensions of a rectangular garden which encloses 48 square feet of land if the length is 3 times the width
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Question 240233: ABCD is a rectangle. Each of the longer sides is 3 cm shorter than twice the shorter side. The perimeter of the rectangle is 24 cm. Find the length of the longer side
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Question 240399: The width of a rectangle is 2 m less than half the length. The perimeter is 44 m.Find the dimensions.
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Question 240425: a rectangle has a perimeter of 78 in. its length is 6 in more than twice its length.
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Question 240546: faye has 20 feet of fencing to make a regtangular pen for her dog.what is the largest area that she can fence in?
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Question 240486: The width of a rectangular painting is tw thirds of its length. If the perimeter is 60 inches then what are the length and width?
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Question 240569: if thw area of the rectangle is 30 square inches what is the perimeter and value?
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Question 240711: Rectangle perimeter is 240 yards. Length equals width plus 16 yards. What are the dimensions? What is the area?

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Question 240741: If the dimensions of the larger rectangle are 9 by 18, what are the dimensions of the smaller rectangle?
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Question 240860: how do you find the fill in of a rectangle if the length is 5(1/4) and the width is 9(2/5)
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Question 240927: Find the perimeter of a rectangular picture if the width is 7/9 yd and the length is 5/9 yd. Show work.
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Question 240948: A rectangular sign must have an area of 22 square yards. Its length must be 4 yards more than its width. Find the dimensions of the sign.
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Question 241075: the length of a rectangle is 5 meters less than twice its width.If the perimeter of the rectangle is 38 meters, then what is the value of the length(in meters)
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Question 241177: the width of a rectangle is fixed at 11 cm. What lengths will make the perimeter greater than 96 cm?
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Question 241315: The dimensions of a room are 21 feet by 6 feet. If carpet costs $16.25 per square
yard, how much will it cost to carpet the room?

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Question 241701: A rectangular box has dimensions 1 feet 2 feet 3 feet. What is the length of the longest object that can be put in the box, if the object can be placed in any position?

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Question 241796: a rectangles length is 9 times its width. If the perimeter if the rectangle is 60 cm, what is the area?
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Question 241824: the perimeter of a rectangle is 88 feet. the length of the rectangle is 4 feet longer than three times the width. find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 242129: The perimeter of a rectangle is 18 feet, and the area of the rectangle is 20 square feet. What is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 242137: If You Have 45 inches of fencing to use.what dimensions would give her the most area.
just to let you know the perimeter equals 45 not the area

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Question 242105: the width of a rectangle is one-half of the length. if the width is 6 meters, what is the length

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Question 242117: is a tennis court a golden rectangle?
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Question 242159: . The length of a rectangular room is 7 feet longer than its width. The area of the room is 60 feet. What are the dimensions of the room?
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Question 242218: The area of the rectangular piece of cardboard shown on the left is 198 square inches. The cardboard is used to make an open box by cutting a 2 inch square from each corner and turning up the sides. If the box is to have a volume of 196 cubic inches, find the length and width of the cardboard that must be used.
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Question 242278: How do you find the lenght of the missing sides if the perimeter is 96 inches.
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Question 242342: a rectangle is 5 meters longer than its width. If thee length is shortened by 2 meters, and the width is increased by one meter, the area will remain the same. Find the length and the area.
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Question 242446: Please help me solve this equation: The length of a rectangle is 5 meters longer than the width. If the area is 22 square meters, find the rectangles dimensions. Round to the nearest tenth of a meter.
I think the equation below is the right equation to solve the problem but I am having issues solving the equation.
X%5E2%2B5X=22

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Question 242446: Please help me solve this equation: The length of a rectangle is 5 meters longer than the width. If the area is 22 square meters, find the rectangles dimensions. Round to the nearest tenth of a meter.
I think the equation below is the right equation to solve the problem but I am having issues solving the equation.
X%5E2%2B5X=22

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Question 242485: What is the perimeter of a rectangle if the area is 36 m square?
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Question 242485: What is the perimeter of a rectangle if the area is 36 m square?
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Question 242764: The length and width of a rectangle are represented as consecutive integers, the perimeter of the rectangle is 70. How do you find the length and width?
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