Question

The length of a rectangle is 3 more than twice the width. The area of the rectangle is 119 square inches. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?

If x = the width of the rectangle, which of the following equations is used in the process of solving this problem?

a) 2x2+ 3x - 119 = 0
b) 3x2+ 3x - 119 = 0
c) 6x2- 119 = 0

Answer 1

2x+3 is long side
x is short side of rectangle according to question
and what is the formula for area of the rectangle please ?

Answer 2

I think you can recall it

Answer 3

Just plug these to the formula and done

Answer 4

length x width