SOLUTION: The length of a rectangular parking lot is 36m longer than its width. The area of the parking lot is 5,152m2. If the area of the parking lot is double, would its length and width a

Question 890126: The length of a rectangular parking lot is 36m longer than its width. The area of the parking lot is 5,152m2. If the area of the parking lot is double, would its length and width also double?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Original length and width, L and w.

L=w+36.
.

5152=4*4*2*161.
Discrim, 36^2-4*(-5152)=36+4*5152=21904, which is .
---using general solution of quadratic equation

Double the area.
Let the unknown distances increase by factor x .
, what is x ?
, we already know wL=5152.
x^2=2
----this is not doubled.

...would its length and width also double? No.
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