document.write( "Question 1194751: A coffee table is rectangular. If the length of its surface is one foot greater than twice its width
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document.write( "It may be that your teacher wanted you to do it without using\r\n" );
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document.write( "We know the width can't be negative, so we ignore\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's the way to get the width as 2 without\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now substitute w=2 in length = 2w+1 to find the length.\r\n" );
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