The area of a rectangle with width x and length 5x is 5x2. What does the coefficient 5 mean in terms of the problem?
1 answer:
Answer:
The length is 5 times the width
Step-by-step explanation:
Let
W ----> the width of the rectangle
L ----> the length of the rectangle
we know that
The area of rectangle is equal to
In this problem we have
----> equation A
----> equation B
substitute equation B in equation A
therefore
The length is 5 times the width
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