the length of a rectanlge is 5 m less than twice the width, and the area of the rectangle is 33m^2. find dimesion of the rectangle

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anonymous · Answer

Your going to be creating a system of two equations. One equation relates the length to the width. And the other relates length and width to the area.

Length x Width = Area
Length = 5 less than twice Width

imstuck · Answer

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imstuck · Answer

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imstuck · Answer

The width is 5.5, and the length is 5 less than twice that, which means 2(5.5) - 5 = 6

anonymous · Answer

So you just went ahead and did ALL the work for him then?

imstuck · Answer

yep

anonymous · Answer

Why?

anonymous · Answer

You realize we're here to help people strengthen their problem solving skills. Not spoon feed answers so that people will like you.