SOLUTION: The ancient Greeks thought that the most pleasing shape for rectangle was one for which the ratio. If the length of a rectangular painting is 2 ft longer than its width, then for w

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Question 120858: The ancient Greeks thought that the most pleasing shape for rectangle was one for which the ratio. If the length of a rectangular painting is 2 ft longer than its width, then for what dimention would the length and width have the golden ratio?
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Answer by checkley71(8403) About Me  (Show Source):
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x & x+2
Then the dimensions could be the following:
10 12
14 16
20 22
44 46
60 62