SOLUTION: The length of a rectangle is three times the width.What is the width if the area is 147 square feet?

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Question 316854: The length of a rectangle is three times the width.What is the width if the area
is 147 square feet?

Answer by nyc_function(2741)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I will give you the equation set up and you can finish.
length = 3x
width = x
The area of a rectangle is found using A = length times width.
Let A = 147 because it is given to us in the application.
147 = (3x) times (x)
Can you finish?

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