SOLUTION: The length of a recatngle is 8 meters more than its width. If the area is 65 square meters, what are the length and width?

Question 385718: The length of a recatngle is 8 meters more than its width. If the area is 65 square meters, what are the length and width?
Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
13 and 5. On some of these problems you can easily "guess and check" by knowing that the only factors of 65 are (1, 65), (5, 13). On other problems you can solve by letting the width be w and the length 8+w. Then the area is w(8+w) = 65, which can be solved for w using the quadratic formula (or factoring).
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