SOLUTION: If a window is to be 7 feet wide, how high should it be, to the nearest tenth of a foot, to be a golden rectangle? Assume that the width of the window is larger than height.

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Question 995759: If a window is to be 7 feet wide, how high should it be, to the nearest tenth of a foot, to be a golden rectangle? Assume that the width of the window is larger than height.
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Let be the height. Then for a golden rectangle of long side that measures 7, the height is approximately given by

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