Question

Given square ABCD, what is the length of AD?

Answer 1

Since it's a square, all sides are equal
therefore,
3x - 5 = x + 1
2x = 6
x = 3

sub x into AD, which is 3x-5
= 3(3) - 5
= 9 - 5
= 4

therefore AD is 4 units