SOLUTION: A solid-gold jewelry box was found in the underwater palace of Cleopatra just off the shore of Treasure City. The length of the rectangular box is 25 centimeters less than tripl
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Question 1204255: A solid-gold jewelry box was found in the underwater palace of Cleopatra just off the shore of Treasure City. The length of the rectangular box is 25 centimeters less than triple the width. The perimeter of the box is 250 centimeters. Find the length and width of Cleopatra's solid-gold jewelry box.
Found 2 solutions by MathLover1, ikleyn:
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The length of the rectangular box is centimeters less than triple the width.
.......eq.1
The perimeter of the box is centimeters.
.....eq.2
substitute the length from eq.1
go to
.......eq.1, substitute W
the length and width of Cleopatra's solid-gold jewelry box is
Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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For future readers of this post:
Do not take this problem seriously, since it INTENTLY uses inconsistent words and terms
as a perimeter for a 3D box (which is undetermined notion in Math) and also assumes
that 3D box has no third dimension, like height.
It is OBVIOUS that a person who created it, is mathematically illiterate
and composes such problems with the only one goal to prove how smart he is
by confusing and perplexing the readers.
Such problems give NOTHING for mathematical development of readers;
THEREFORE, do not spend your time for this GIBBERISH.
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