Question 611416: your rectangular ad is 5 inches long its width is 2 inches shorter than the lenth what is the area of the ad Answer by radh(108) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! We know that to find the area of the rectangle, you use . But this is a word problem, we don't have measurements put out for us that easily. Let's write this in a mathematical notation.
Your rectangular ad is 5 inches long (l=5). Its width is 2 inches shorter than the length (l-2).
Since we know that l = 5, we can plug that in to get the width. .
So, the length is 5 and the width is 3.
The area of the rectangle is 15. :)
