Question

The length of a rectangle is four meters less than twice its width.

If the area of the rectangle is 96 m^2, what is the length and the width?

An expression for the length of the rectangle in terms of the width would be

The formula for the area of a rectangle is

Using trial and error, if the area is 96 m^2, then the length and width are

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

The length of the rectangle in terms of the width, w, would be 2w - 4.

The formula for the area of a rectangle is length * width, or A = lw.

Given that the area of the rectangle is 96 m^2, we can set up the equation 96 = (2w - 4)w.

By trial and error or solving the equation, we can find that the width of the rectangle is 8 m and the length is 12 m.