Given that the area of rectangle IJKL is 500 units?
what are its length and width?
1
5x
J
K
8x
1 = 101.5 units, w = 162 4 units
1=35 8 units, w = 23 units
1 = 100 units, w = 62 5 units
1 = 28 units, w = 175 units
An area of a rectangle is length times width. 8x times 5x = 40x^2. 40x^2 is eqaul to 500. After dividing by 40 and taking the square root of the quotient, x is approximately 3.54. 5 times 3.54 and 8 times 3.54 will yield approximately 17.5 and 28 units.
