SOLUTION: The length of a rectangle is 5 meters longer than the width. The area is 300 square meters. How long is the rectangle?
Can you give me an equation? I swear, nobody knows how to
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Question 575561: The length of a rectangle is 5 meters longer than the width. The area is 300 square meters. How long is the rectangle?
Can you give me an equation? I swear, nobody knows how to find it:( Answer by chana(69) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The length of a rectangle is 5 meters longer than the width. The area is 300 square meters. How long is the rectangle?
sol:
let the unknown parameter width be x
and length = 5 + x , as given
area = 500 sq units
l * width = area
so subtitute what you know in the above equation
(5 + x)*(x) = 300------------- 1
the above equation is the required one to find the length.
solve for x which gives length = 15 meter
