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?
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Let represent the width. Then represents the length. The perimeter is given by:



Hence



Solve for for the width, then double it to get the length.


John