Question

The area of a rectangular television screen is 3456 in^2. The width of that screen is 24 inches longer than the length. What is a quadratic equation the represents the area of the screen? What are the dimensions of the screen?

Answer 1

x ( x + 24) = 3456

x^2 + 24x - 3456 = 0 is the equation you require

(x - 48(x + 72) = 0

x = 48

Dimensions are width 48 and length 72 in