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List all possible dimensions of a rectangle with an area of 24 square feet

User Petike
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This is a tricky question, since there are millions of solutions. You need to restrict your sets of dimensions to integers for the easiest approach:

1*24, 2*12, 3*8, and so on.

Note (as an example of non-integer solutions): (2 1/2)(48/5) is equal to 24.
User Vincrichaud
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Possible dimensions are:
1x24
2x12
3x8
4x6
User Ronrun
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