You would use the distributive property.
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Answer:
see attached
Step-by-step explanation:
The first attachment shows the rectangles with the area inside and the width on the right. The synthetic division of area by width gives the polynomial coefficients for length. The lengths are marked above the rectangles. The synthetic division is shown the 2nd and 3rd attachments.
No...standard form cannot have fractions
2/3x - 1/3y = 2....multiply by common denominator of 3 to get rid of fractions
2x - y = 6 <== standard form