SOLUTION: A rectangular calendar has an area of 338 square inches. When folded in half, it forms a square. What is the length of the longer side of the rectangle?
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Question 354123: A rectangular calendar has an area of 338 square inches. When folded in half, it forms a square. What is the length of the longer side of the rectangle? Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source):
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Note: begin by noting that the resulting square will have 1/2 of the area that the rectangle had.
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Let x be the length of the side of the resulting square when the rectange is folded in half.
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x = 13 in
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26in would be the length of the longer side of that rectangle
