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the area of a 12 cm wide rectangle 252 cm squared what is its length. Please show how you got the answer I am really trying to understand this!

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To find the area of a rectangle you just multiply the length by the width. In this case we have 12(width) x ?(length) = 252. To solve we would just divide the area by the known measurement to find the missing one, so 252/12 =21cm
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