document.write( "Question 227002: The perimeter of a rectangle is 26 units. Each of the length and width of the rectangle is Measured in natural numbers. What is the largest area in square units that the rectangle could have?
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The largest area possible for this rectangle is $\"42units%5E2\"$ .\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Take the perimeter of the rectangle 26 units and divide by 4, the number of sides the rectangle has. $\"26%2F4=6.5\"$ Which gives you 6.5 units... since the numbers are natural numbers round the number off to use it as the value of one of the sides. In this case that would be 7. To find the value of the other two sides, just multiply 7 by 2 (since the rectangle has two pairs of equal sides) $\"7%2A2=14\"$ which gives you 14, subtract this value(14) from the total perimeter $\"26-14=12\"$ which gives you 12. Divide that new value (12) by 2 to give you the value of the other two sides. $\"12%2F2=6\"$ The other value is 6.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Now take the width value multiply it by the length value to receive the area value in squared units. $\"7%2A6=42\"$ Thus giving you 42 units squared. \n" ); document.write( "

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