The length of a rectangle is 8 cm more than 3 times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 64 cm. Show the equation that would be used to find the dimensions of the rectangle.

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Leonidas Huynh

25 March, 13:01

The length of a rectangle is 8 cm more than 3 times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 64 cm. Show the equation that would be used to find the dimensions of the rectangle.

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Mahoney · Answer 1

The equation should go something like this:

the length (l) is 8 more than 3 times the width (w) and the length plus the width is equal to half the perimeter

so the means that L = 3W+8 and L+W = 32

so you can plug in L to get 3W+8+W=32

Finally it would be 4W+8=32