SOLUTION: a room's length is 3 feet less than twice its width. the area if the room is 135 square feet. What are the rooms dimensions?

Question 153149: a room's length is 3 feet less than twice its width. the area if the room is 135 square feet. What are the rooms dimensions?
Answer by orca(409) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the width of the room, then the length can be expressed in terms of x as 2x - 3.
Its area in terms of x is x(2x - 3).
Setting x(2x - 3) = 135, we have
x(2x - 3) = 135
Re-arrange the quadratic equation into standard form:
2x^2 - 3x - 135 = 0
Solve it by using the quadratic formula:

Here a = 2, b = -3 and c = -135
So

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So or
Reject x = -7.5 as the width can not be negative.
So the solution is x = 9
Therefore the width is 9ft,the length is 2x - 3=2*9-3=15.

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