SOLUTION: A flat retangular pice of aluminum has a perimeter of 60 inches. The length is 14 inches longer than the width. Find the width.

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Question 657927: A flat retangular pice of aluminum has a perimeter of 60 inches. The length is 14 inches longer than the width. Find the width.
Answer by graphmatics(170)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let w be the width then the length is w+14. Because the perimeter is 69 we have
2*w+2*(w+14)=60
4*w+28=60
w=32/4=8

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