The area of a rectangle is 36 square centimeters. The length is 1 foot more than twice the width.
2 answers:
Answer:
4 cm
Step-by-step explanation:
In order to solve this problem we just have to remember the formula for the area of the rectangle:
Now we have to represent the values for width and lenth, we are going to use X for the width, and if the length is twice as much the width and is one foot more it will be represented by: 2x+1
So if we put the values into the formula we get an equation:
Now that we have our equation we can solve by factorizing it:
Once we have the two factors we just equalize them to 0
And solve it for (x-4):
So the width of the rectangle is 4 and the length is 9.
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We have two terms: (x - 2)(x - 1)
We should first multiply the First two terms of each term in order to complete the F stage:
(x)*(x) =
So then, we take the two outer terms and multiply them together to complete the O stage:
(x)*(-1) = -x
So far we have two things that we have calculated; at the end of the FOIL process we will have four.
To keep going with the FOIL, we now multiply the two inner terms to complete the I stage:
(-2)*(x) = -2x
Last but not least, we need to complete the L stage - so we multiply the two last terms of each term:
(-2)*(-1) = 2
Now that we have our four terms, let us add them together and combine like terms:
Since -x and -2x both have the x portion in common and they are added together, we can add them to create one single term:
-x + (-2x) = -3x
So now that we have our terms completed, we can combine into one polynomial equation:
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We have two terms: (x - 2)(x - 1)
We should first multiply the First two terms of each term in order to complete the F stage:
(x)*(x) =
So then, we take the two outer terms and multiply them together to complete the O stage:
(x)*(-1) = -x
So far we have two things that we have calculated; at the end of the FOIL process we will have four.
To keep going with the FOIL, we now multiply the two inner terms to complete the I stage:
(-2)*(x) = -2x
Last but not least, we need to complete the L stage - so we multiply the two last terms of each term:
(-2)*(-1) = 2
Now that we have our four terms, let us add them together and combine like terms:
Since -x and -2x both have the x portion in common and they are added together, we can add them to create one single term:
-x + (-2x) = -3x
So now that we have our terms completed, we can combine into one polynomial equation: