Question

The width and length of a rectangle (in feet)are consecutive odd integers. If the length is increased by 5 feet, the area of the resulting rectangle is 60 square feet. What is the area of the original rectangle?

Answer 1

60 = 30 × 2 = 15 × 4 = 12 × 5 = 10 × 6.

12 is the width, so that when it is decreased by 5 you get 2 consecutive odd integers.

Answer 2

And so `7 × 5` is the area of the original shape. Understand ?

Answer 3

Yes! thank you

Answer 4

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