SOLUTION: allison is a artist and makes her own canvases, today she is planing to make a rectagular canvas with a total perimeter of 52 inches. the length of the canvas is to be 2 inches mor

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Question 722550: allison is a artist and makes her own canvases, today she is planing to make a rectagular canvas with a total perimeter of 52 inches. the length of the canvas is to be 2 inches more than twicw the width.What will be the dimensions of the canvas?
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Solution:
Let 'L' be the length and 'W' be the width of the rectangular canvas to be made.
Given : L = 2 + 2W -----------eq.1
Perimeter = 2L + 2W = 52 or L + W = 26 ---------eq.2
Put eq.1 in eq.2, we get,
2 + 2W + W = 26 or W = 8 inches and L = 2 + 16 = 18 inches