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The length of a rectangle is 3 more than its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 58 cm. What are the rectangle's dimensions?
Answer by oscargut(2103) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
y = x+3
2(x+y) = 58
width is 13 and length is 16
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