A rectangle has an area of 12 cm^2 and a width of 400 cm. what is the length of the rectangle?

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anonymous · Answer

@Babynini

babynini · Answer

Uh, how can the side be larger than the area?

anonymous · Answer

lol no clue

babynini · Answer

xD I really don't know haha

babynini · Answer

ooh! the length can be a decimal!

babynini · Answer

Let's see, try 12/400 = ?

anonymous · Answer

its 0.03

anonymous · Answer

my options are 
3 cm 
30 cm
300 cm 
3000 cm

babynini · Answer

online homework?

babynini · Answer

All of those options are too large..

anonymous · Answer

nah lol paper hw i got 60 questions to answer

anonymous · Answer

Are you sure the options aren't in meters? If you convert to meters, its 3

anonymous · Answer

Are you sure it wasn't 12 m^2? Cause it would make sense then.

anonymous · Answer

oh yeah its that sorry i typed it wrong

babynini · Answer

hahah gwow. What's the correct problem?

anonymous · Answer

A rectangle has an area of 12m^2 and a width of 400 cm. what is the length of the rectangle?

babynini · Answer

the length will be 300 :)

anonymous · Answer

Then it would be 300

anonymous · Answer

thank u very much guys now i need to see how u did it

anonymous · Answer

i have to write one or 2 complete sentences on how i got it :(

babynini · Answer

Oh wow o.0

anonymous · Answer

i know right :( 
so how did u get 300

anonymous · Answer

Well, area of a rectangle is l*w=A. Since we know the A of 12 and the w of 4, we just divide $$\frac{ 12 }{ 4 }m=3m$$ Since that would be 3 meters, we convert it back to centimeters which makes it 300 cm

anonymous · Answer

Thank you very much :)

anonymous · Answer

haha, no problem :)