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The area of a rectangular swimming pool is 10x^2-19x-15. The length of the pool is 5x+3. What is the width of the pool

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Taskmasters is correct the answer is 2x-5. Give him some credit!
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To width of the rectangular pool, we divide the given area by the length of the pool given. This is reasonable because the area of the rectangle is the product of the length and width. I did the long method of dividing polynomials for this item and the answer is equal to
width = 2x - 5
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