SOLUTION: one side of a rectangle is three feet more than half as long as the other side and the perimeter is 21 feet what are the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 359491: one side of a rectangle is three feet more than half as long as the other side and the perimeter is 21 feet what are the dimensions of the rectangle
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one side of a rectangle is three feet more than half as long as the other side and the perimeter is 21 feet what are the dimensions of the rectangle.
Let x, y be the sides of the rectangle.
, and .
By substitution,
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