document.write( "Question 867116: If the rectanggular of the room is twice as long as it is wide. It is diveded into two rectangular part by a partition. If the larger part of the room contains 560 square feet, what is the dimension of the entire room. \n" ); document.write( "

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\"If the rectanggular of the room\", means what? I will use this to mean \"a rectangular room\".\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "w and L width and length.
\n" ); document.write( "L/w=2, \"twice as long as it is wide\".
\n" ); document.write( "L=2w.
\n" ); document.write( "Dimensions of original rectangle are w and 2w.\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Partition the room into dimension w and the lengths of each rectangle part is x and y, so that x+y=L. This means, x+y=2w. \"Solving\" this for y, find y=2w-x. What now is these two rectangles separated by a partition?\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "One rectangle part is dimensions w by x.
\n" ); document.write( "Other rectangle part is dimensions w by 2w-x.
\n" ); document.write( "Either wx=560 OR w(2w-x)=560. NOT both.
\n" ); document.write( "You seem to have enough information for 1 equation but you have 2 unknown variables. \n" ); document.write( "

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