SOLUTION: The length of a rectangular picture is 5 inches more than three times the width. Find the dimensions of the picture if its perimeter is 74 inches.
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Question 1156782: The length of a rectangular picture is 5 inches more than three times the width. Find the dimensions of the picture if its perimeter is 74 inches.
Answer by greenestamps(13198) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the width be w.
Then the length is 3w+5.
The perimeter of 74 is twice the length plus twice the width:
Solve using basic algebra....
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