SOLUTION: if the width of a rectangle is 2x-7 and the area of the rectangle is 32cm^2. What is the diagonal?

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Question 344289: if the width of a rectangle is 2x-7 and the area of the rectangle is 32cm^2. What is the diagonal?
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if the width of a rectangle is 2x-7 and the area of the rectangle is 32cm^2.
What is the diagonal?
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32%2F%282x-7%29 = length of the rectangle
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Find the diagonal
d^2 = %282x-7%29%5E2 + %2832%2F%282x-7%29%29%5E2%29
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d = sqrt%284x%5E2-28x%2B49+%2B+%281024%2F%284x%5E2-28x%2B49%29%29%29