The perimeter of a basketball court is 102 meters and the length is 6 meters longer than twice the width . What are the length and width?

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Perimeter of a rectangle(basketball court)=2L+2W, where L=Length and W=Width. We are given that L=6(2W)........eq1 and 102=2L+2W......eq2. Substitute eq1 into eq2, then 102=2(12W)+2W.     102=24W+2W       102=26W    W=51/13      Finally substitute W=51/13 into eq1   then L=12(51/13)=612/13.         Rounded off to 3 decimals L=47.077 and W=3,923