SOLUTION: The length of a rectangle is 9 centimeters more than half the width. Find the length if they perimeter is 60 centimeters.
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Question 153557: The length of a rectangle is 9 centimeters more than half the width. Find the length if they perimeter is 60 centimeters.
Answer by orca(409) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the width, then the length is .
The perimeter = 2*width + 2*length
=
As the perimeter is 60, we have:
Solving for x, we have
So
the width is 14 cm,
the length is .
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