Question

The area of a rectangle is 48 square feet. The length is two feet longer than the width. What is the width of the rectangle?

Answer 1

What are the factors of 48

Answer 2

none were given

Answer 3

You should know the factors of 48

Answer 4

1,2,3,4,6,8,12,16,24,48

Answer 5

Well, my way is a little weird but here's how I'd solve it:
Set up an algebraic equation:
We know that area=width*length
We also know that the area is 48, and that the length is 2 feet longer than the width.
So we now have:
48 =N*(N+2)
Because the one side is 2 feet longer than the other, and we don't know the length of either.
48=N^2 +2N
N=6.
So the width is 6, and the length is 8 (6+2)

Answer 6

thank you

Answer 7

I can see what army was trying to show you. You could see that 6 and 8 were both factors of 48, and that 8 was 2 bigger than 6, so your length was 8 and your width was 6.
There explanation was a little better. :)

Answer 8

Thanks fort he pat on the back