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Question 315998: The length of a rectangle is 5 ft more than its width and its area is 84 square feet. Find its width and length. Let x represent the width of the rectangle and translate the problem into an equation. Don't solve. Found 2 solutions by jim_thompson5910, checkley77:Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! "The length of a rectangle is 5 ft more than its width" means that the length is units. Since "its area is 84 square feet", we know that . Since we don't have to solve this, I'll leave it like this. If you wanted to solve, distribute and then get everything to one side. Once you have a simplified quadratic, use the quadratic formula to solve.
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