Question

The area of a rectangle playgrond is 78 square meters. If the length of the playground is 13 meters, what is its width?

Answer 1

The area of a rectangle = length * width

78 = length * 13


`length = (78)/(13)` use a calculator to find out the answer then,

Answer 2

6 meters.

Explanation:

Let w represent width of the rectangle.

We have been given that the area of a rectangle playground is 78 square meters. The length of the playground is 13 meters.

We know that area of a rectangle is width times length of rectangle. We can represent our given information in an equation as:

`\text{Area of rectangle}=\text{Length}* \text{Width}`

`78\text{ m}^2=13\text{ m}* \text{Width}`

`13\text{ m}* \text{Width}=78\text{ m}^2`

`\frac{13\text{ m}* \text{Width}}{13\text{ m}}=\frac{78\text{ m}^2}{13\text{ m}}`

`\text{Width}=6\text{ m}`

Therefore, the width of the rectangle is 6 meters.