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Question 610215: A rectangle has a perimeter of 140 units. It's length is 10 units more than its width. If l represents the length and w represents the width, then this situation can be represented by this system of equations:
2L + 2W = 140
L=w+10
The answers choices are 65 units, 30 units, and 70 units.
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Question 610196: If a rectangle has an area of 30 square inches what are the possible dimensions?
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Question 610526: The formula for the perimeter of a rectangle is P = 2W + 2L.
What is the width of a rectangle if the perimeter is 100 feet and the length is 30 feet?

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Question 610633: What is the length of the rectangle if the width of the rectangle is 9 in and the perimeter is 44 in?

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Question 610798: find the length of the road. if the road is 50ft wide, what is it's area? assume that the road is a rectangle.
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Question 610811: A rectangle has a diagonal of 5 meters and perimeter of 14 meters. Find the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 610862: A square has dimensions of x feet by x feet. A rectangle is 4 feet longer than the length of the square. Find the area of the rectangle
help please
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Question 610945: I need help solving this problem
The length of a rectangular pool is 4 ft longer than the width. The area of the swimming pool measures 60 square ft. Find the dimensions of the pool.
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Question 610871: a pool in the shape of parallelogram has a perimeter of 30 feet the length is 3 more than the width what are dimension of the pool
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Question 611025: The ratio of the width of a rectangle to its length is 3 : 4. The length of the
rectangle is 36 cm. Write and solve a proportion to find the rectangle�s width.
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Question 611079: the area of a rectangle is 100 square meters. list possible lengths and widths for the rectangle
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Question 611157: Given two rectangles, one with length = l and width = w, and the second rectangle with length = 2l and width = 4w. How much larger will the perimeter of the second rectangle be than the perimeter of the first rectangle?
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Question 611078: find the length and the width of a rectangle whose perimeter is 18 ft whose area is 20 square feet
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Question 611436: The width of a rectangle is 3 inches and its area is 2 square feet. What is the length of this rectangle?
Please help.
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Question 611436: The width of a rectangle is 3 inches and its area is 2 square feet. What is the length of this rectangle?
Please help.
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Question 611465: the lenght of a rectangle is 6 inhes longer than the width. If the perimeter is 40 inches , what are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 611540: What is the greatest number of rectangles with integer side lengths and perimeter 10 that can be cut from a piece of paper with width 24 and length 60?
A)144
B)180
C)240
D)360
E)480
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Question 611731: The length of a rectangle is 1 m less than twice its width and the area of the rectangle is 78m^2. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 611936: a painting measuring 12 inches by 18 inches is surrounded by a frame of uniform width. if the combined area of the painting and the frame is 432 square inches, determine the width of the frame

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Question 612760: a square of 400 cm squared has the same perimeter as a rectangle whose length is 8 cm more than its length. find the area of the rectangle.
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Question 613238: The length of a rectangle is four times its width.
If the area of the rectangle is 324ft^2 , find its perimeter.
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Question 613353: The perimeter of a rectangle is 42 inches. The length is 3 inches less than twice the width. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 613598: The length of a rectangular garden is 2 feet longer than 3 times its width. If the perimeter of the garden is 100 feet, find the width and length of the garden
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Question 613635: A rectangle has a length that is 5 feet more than its width. The area of this rectangle is 84 square feet. What is the width and length of this rectangle?
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Question 613784: the lenghts of a rectangle is 6 in more than twice the width and the perimeter is greater than 36 in what is the width of the rectangle
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Question 614149: a swimming pool has an area of 40 square meters and a perimeter of 26 meters. What is the length and width of the swimming pool? Is it possible for another pool to have the same area but a larger perimeter ?
I think the length would be 10meters and 3 meters wide ? not sure how to do the rest
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Question 614219: What is the perimeter of a rectangle having side lengths of 3 m and 1 m
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Question 614158: The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 96cm.find the the length of of a side of it
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Question 614900: The area of a rectangle is 243 in^2. If the base is reduced to one-third its original length and the height is doubled, what would its new area be?
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Question 614333: the length of a rectangle is 6 centimeters less than four times its width. If the area is 40 square centimeters, find the length and width.
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Question 615068: A 50m by 20m rectangular lawn is mowed by cuting a uniform strip along it's perimeter. This leaves 4/5 of the lawn area uncut. Determing the width of the cutto the nearest hundredth of a meter
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Question 615209: What is the area of a square with the vertices (3,3),(6,6),(9,3)and (6,0)
A 3 square root of 2 units
B 12 square root of 2 units^2
C 18 units^2
D 36 units^2
this problem has been giving me the biggest headache if you would be so kind to send me the steps of how you solved it i would be very grateful
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Question 615459: The length of a rectangle is 6 times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 98 feet. Find the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 615494: In paralellogram PQRS, angle Q is a right angle. Is PQRS a rectangle ?
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Question 615784: Find two numbers that have a sum of 60 and a difference of 36
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Question 615886: Ramon is designing a rectangular garden with a width of 8ft. The path that leads diagonally across the garden is 2ft longer than the length of the garden. How long is the path?
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Question 616301: What is the greatest perimeter of a rectangle with area 64 cm2?
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Question 616301: What is the greatest perimeter of a rectangle with area 64 cm2?
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Question 616341: A rectangle has an area of 196 m2 and a minimum perimeter. What is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 616334: If a rectangular garden has perimeter of 36ft, and the garden covers the greatest possible area, what should its dimensions be?
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Question 616703: Question: Determine the dimension of a rectangle with a perimeter of 40cm and the greatest possible area.
Book's answer is: 10cm by 10cm
I do not get how can you get 10cm by 10cm, if it is a rectangle.
Please help me! Thank you.
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Question 616775: length900cm and width= 6m
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Question 616885: Joshua visits the computer shop every 6 days while Jacob visits the same place every 8 days. If they both visit the computer shop on July 1, what is the earliest date when they will both visit the computer shop again?
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Question 616884: The area of a rectangle field is 9,000 square meters. if the ratio of the width to the length is 5 is to 8, what is the length of the rectangular field in meters?
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