SOLUTION: If a floor has a perimeter of 288 feet and the length is two times the width how do you find the width and length?
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Question 324696: If a floor has a perimeter of 288 feet and the length is two times the width how do you find the width and length?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the width. Then 
represents the length. The perimeter is given by:
\ +\ 2w\ =\ 288)
Hence
Solve for for the width, then double it to get the length.
John
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