Question

The area on a wall covered by a rectangular poster is 294 square inches. The length of the poster is 1.5 times longer than the width of the poster. What are the dimensions of the poster?

Answer 1

A= l×w
296 = 1.5l × w

You should get 20 at the end

Answer 2

Hey there,

Your question states: The area on a wall covered by a rectangular poster is 294 square inches. The length of the poster is 1.5 times longer than the width of the poster. What are the dimensions of the poster? 

$l= 16 \ x \ 1.25 = 20 in$

Your correct answer would be $\boxed{20}$

Hope this helps.