SOLUTION: A rectangular room is 6 meters longer than it is wide, and its perimeter is 24 meters. Find the dimension of the room.

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Question 1045783: A rectangular room is 6 meters longer than it is wide, and its perimeter is
24 meters. Find the dimension of the room.
Found 3 solutions by ikleyn, josgarithmetic, josmiceli:
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source):
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A rectangular room is 6 meters longer than it is wide, and its perimeter is
24 meters. Find the dimension of the room.
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Let W be the width of the room, in meters. Then the length is W + 6 meters. For the perimeter, we have this equation (W+6) + W + (W+6) + W = 24, or 4W + 12 = 24, or 4W = 24 - 12 = 12. Then W = = 3 m So we found the width W = 3 meters. Then the length is W+6 = 3+6 = 9 m. Answer. The length is 9 m. The width is 3 m.

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Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source):
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x for length
y for width
p for perimeter, given

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You do the rest.

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source):
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Let = the width of the room in meters
= the length of the room in meters
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The formula for perimeter is:

and, for this problem,
and

and

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the dimensions of the room are 3 x 9
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check:

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