Question

Find the dimensions of a rectangle with area 343 m2 whose perimeter is as small as possible.

Answer 1

6 + 6 is less than 9 + 4
see?

Answer 2

and they multiply to 36. It is just a common sense question?
Find a numbers the closest to the perfect square of the area as possible.

Answer 3

343 = 7 * 7 *7
so the only thing I see (as the smallest answer) is 49 and 7

Answer 4

@ksingletary, understand?

Answer 5

I put that in and it says it's incorrect @SolomonZelman

Answer 6

what choices do you have?

Answer 7

Does it have to be integers? I guess not then.

Answer 8

then it would be sqrt343 and sqrt 343.
sqrt 343 is approximately equal to 18.52