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Question 582092: The perimeter of a rectangle is 50 meters. The width of the rectangle is 5 meters less than the length. Determine the equation that would solve for the length and width of the rectangle
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Question 581883: The problem is, "The length of a rectangle exceeds it's width by 3 meters. The perimeter is 58 meters. Find the dimensions." I tried using subsitutions, but I got stuck and didn't get an answer. What do I do?
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Question 582439: The ratio of the measures of a pair of sides of a rectangle is 7:12. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 95, what is the length of each side?
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Question 582558: what is the length of a rectangular back yard if the width is 16 feet and an area of 320 square feet?
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Question 582558: what is the length of a rectangular back yard if the width is 16 feet and an area of 320 square feet?
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Question 582614: The length of each side of a square is extended 2 inches. The area of the resulting square is 144 square inches. Find the length of the side of the original square.
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Question 582692: What is the area of rectangle if the length is 5 more than twice the width?
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Question 582312: the width of a rectangle is 15m shorter than its length. if its length were increased by 8 m and its width were diminished by 6 m its area will be decreased by 50 sq. m. find its dimensions.
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Question 582980: The perimeter of square is 40m. The perimeter of rectangle of length 12m is as the same as the perimeter of square. Find which encloses the greater area square or rectangle?
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Question 583048: the roller-skating rink has a perimeter of 150 yards. if the length is twice as long as the width, what are the dimensions of the rink?
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Question 583272: Find the whole number dimensions of a rectangle that has the given area and the least perimeter possible. 48 cm2 I want to know the best way to explain this to my 5th grader.
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Question 583355: A rectangle has the lengh of both of its sides decreased by 20%. by what persent does the area decrease?
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Question 583339: Find x then find the perimeter of the rectangle.
Base = 3x
Height = x-1
Diagonal = 3x+1

What I've already tried:

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Question 583472: find the area of a circle

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Question 583518: find the area of rectangle in cm2,if we havw width =5 n height =8?
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Question 583577: A carpet measures 30 by 20m. A strip of 4m wide is cut from it. Find the area of remaining carpet.
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Question 583565: If the length of a rectangle is 15 cm and the width is 12 cm, what is the area?
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Question 583515: find the area of triangle in cm2,if we havw width =5 n height =8?
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Question 584332: Please help me solve this, thank you,
The area of rectangle is 121k^2 - 25p^2 square meters and length is 11k + 5p meters, what is an expression for the width?
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Question 584349: a rectangle 15 cm wide has a perimeter of
cm. what is the length of the rectangle
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Question 584781: Determine how much the perimeter of the second figure will increase or decrease if the length of all 4 sides were changed.

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Question 584923: i must find the missing dimension of a rectangle. the width is 2 and the length is x
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Question 584948: List all of the possible rectangle that have a area of 36 cm squared
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Question 585078: the length of a rectangle is 18 ft more than the width. the perimeter is 152 ft. what is the length?
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Question 585087: If the volume of a figure is 49 liters and the ends of the figure are 16" x 9.5" x 16" what is the length of the figure?
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Question 585449: The dimensions of a retangle are 5cm by 13m. what are the dimensions of a similar rectangle with exactly double the area?
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Question 585389: Find the ratio of the length to the width of the rectangle. then simplify the ratio.

the length is 10 cm
the width is 35 cm
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Question 585490: Factor. The perimeter of a rectangle is represented by 2l + 2w. Express the perimeter as the product of two factors.
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Question 585359: The combined area of a square and a rectangle is 76 square centimeters. The width of the rectangle is 2 centimeters more than the length of a side of the square, and the length of the rectangle is 4 centimeters more than its width. Find the dimensions of the square and the rectangle.
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Question 585620: Two cars start from the same place traveling in opposite directions one car travels 5 miles per hour faster than the other car.find the speeds of the two cars if after 6 hours they are 570 miles apart?
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Question 585618: How many gallons of a 10% salt solution must be mixed with 12 gallons of a 15% salt solution to obtain a 12% salt solution?
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Question 585906: 4x=20
6(3x-3)=8
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Question 585962: a stone pathway forms the diagonal of a square garden. one side of the garden is 40ft. how long is the pathway
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Question 586086: What is the perimeter of a rectangle whose area is 14 square Meters and whose Length is 7 Meters?
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Question 586392: what is the volume if the rectangle sides are 8 8 and 10
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Question 586558: The length of a rectangle is 3 times the width. The perimeter is 96 cm. Find the width and length.
can you please include the formula

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Question 586491: the coordinates of three vertices of a rectangle are (3,1), (-2,1), and (-2,3). what are the fourth vertex
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Question 586572: The length of a rectangle is three inches greater than twice its width. Its area is 90 square inches. Find its dimensions.
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Question 586696: if the area of the rectangular room is 48m and the lenght is 10m. what is the width?
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Question 586911: how do you write an expression for the area and perimeter of a regular square in terms of x?
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Question 587368: If the area of a rectangle is 59 units what would the Length and width be if it has to be a whole number
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Question 587438: If Jim is 25 feet away from a building that is 500 feet tall. He looks toward the top of the building from ground level. Determine the size of the angle between the street and the top of the building.
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Question 587488: how would you draw this out: find the area of a rectangle which has one side of 8 cm and whose diagonal is 10 cm?
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Question 587968: how can i find the value of x
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