SOLUTION: How do you know if your answer for the length and width of a rectangle is correct. The only information given was that the area is 288 yards squared. I did the problem and have com

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Question 411238: How do you know if your answer for the length and width of a rectangle is correct. The only information given was that the area is 288 yards squared. I did the problem and have come up with the length as being 68 and the width as 35. Can you please guide me in this problem. Thank you
Answer by sudhanshu_kmr(1152) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Here only area of rectangle is given, there will be many solutions of this problem.
for example, 2x144, 3x96 , 4x72 ...........