Question

The area of a rectangle is x2 - 5x – 36. What is the length and width?​

Answer 1

Answer:

$(x-9)(x+4)$

Step-by-step explanation:

We can solve this by factoring $x^2 -5x -36 = (x-9)(x+4)$

This gives us our two sides because length and width multiplied will give us the area