Question

The length and width of a rectangle are in a 3:5 ratio. The perimeter of the rectangle is 64. What are the length and width of the rectangle? The length is? And the width is?

Answer 1

Hey there! I'm happy to help!

We know that the perimeter is 2L+2W. Le'ts plug in the values 3 and 5 from our ratio and see what our perimeter would be with that.

2(3)+2(5)

6+10

16

How can we get this 16 to 64?

64/16=4

So, we need to multiply this length and width by four to get 64 as our perimeter!

3*4=12

5*4=20

We can plug this into our perimeter equation

2(12)+2(20)

24+40

64

Therefore, our length is 12 and our width is 20.

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