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: The length of a rectangle is 2 cm more than twice its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 52 cm, find the dimensions of the rectangle. This question is from textbook 0-07-301602-0
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let's represent the width as w. Therefore, the length is equal to
The perimeter of a rectangle is given by 2w + 2l, and we can equate it to 52, by the problem statement:
Distributive property:
Therefore, if width is 8 cm, the length of our rectangle is cm.
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