The area of a rectangle is 44ft^2, and the length of the rectangle is 3ft less than twice the width. find the dimensions of the rectangle

Hi there! The width of the rectangle is 5.5ft and the length is 8ft.

Let the width of the rectangle be represented by X. This learns us the length of the rectangle is 2X - 3.

Therefore the area of the rectangle (which is length * width) would be

Since the area of the rectangle is 44 ft^2, we end up with the following equation.








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Since X represents the width (and width can't be negative), the width of the rectangle is 5.5ft

The length is
2X - 3 = 2 × 5.5 - 3 = 11 - 3 = 8ft.