The area of a rectangle is 36 square centimeters. the length is 1 foot more than twice the width.

what is the width of the rectangle?

4 cm

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to solve this problem we just have to remember the formula for the area of the rectangle:

Now we have to represent the values for width and lenth, we are going to use X for the width, and if the length is twice as much the width and is one foot more it will be represented by: 2x+1

So if we put the values into the formula we get an equation:

Now that we have our equation we can solve by factorizing it:

Once we have the two factors we just equalize them to 0

And solve it for (x-4):

So the width of the rectangle is 4 and the length is 9.