SOLUTION: The width of a rectangle is 3 less than twice it’s length if the area of the rectangle is 47 cm^2 what is the length of the diagonal

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Question 1198427: The width of a rectangle is 3 less than twice it’s length if the area of the rectangle is 47 cm^2 what is the length of the diagonal
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The width of a rectangle is less than twice it’s length
------eq1



---- substitute



using quadratic formula we get


or


We obviously only want the second answer.
go to eq1



diagonal:






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