SOLUTION: The area of a rectangle is 96. The length is 6, and the width is . What is the value of x? What is the width of the rectangle? (Hint: The area of a rectangle is equal to length tim

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Question 189594: The area of a rectangle is 96. The length is 6, and the width is . What is the value of x? What is the width of the rectangle? (Hint: The area of a rectangle is equal to length times width.)
Answer by Kalmetam(43) About Me  (Show Source):
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Since 96 is the Area
L%2AW=96
and since 6 is the Length
6%2AW=96
Get rid of the 6 by dividing it out, you will also divide 6 from 96, since what you do on one side, you do to the other.
96%2F6=16
So W must equal, 16.