SOLUTION: make a table of all possible whole-number pairs of length and width values for a rectangle with a perimeter of 18 meters

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Question 392922: make a table of all possible whole-number pairs of length and width values for a rectangle with a perimeter of 18 meters
Answer by robertb(5830) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let (L, W) be the ordered pair of positive integers. Assume that neither L nor W can be 0, for no rectangle will be formed in that case, and that L%3E=W.
Then L + W = 9, and easily the ordered pairs are (8,1), (7,2), (6,3), and (5,4).