SOLUTION: What are length and width of rectangle with an area of 59 square units? What is perimeter?

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Question 606207: What are length and width of rectangle with an area of 59 square units? What is perimeter?
Answer by mathie123(224) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This has MANY answers....
We know that the area of a rectangle is
A=L%2AW
So we have:
59=L%2AW
L=59%2FW
But we can substitute in any number for L and get a corresponding W. (If it was a square however, there would only be one answer as we substitute L=W and solve for W.
With the perimeter the same problem remains. Once we have a L and W we have:
P=2L%2B2W
But due to the fact that there are many such L and W, there are just as many perimeters.

Hopefully this clears things up a bit, if there was any more specifications with the question Let me know so I can be more clear with my answer.


Okay, using the new information, if we want the smallest rectangle with whole number lengths and widths-- we know that the smallest length we can have is 1 making the width 59 (not that this is smaller perimeter than if we had a square with area 59 and any other rectangles with that area with whole number lengths).
From here, you can use the above formula and find perimeter. :)