document.write( "Question 1205280: The width of a rectangle is 4 units less than the length. The area of the rectangle is 12 square units. What is the width, in units, of the rectangle?\r
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x length
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Think of some simple known factorizations of 12.
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