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The area of a rectangle is found by multiplying the base times the height. A rectangle with an area represented by 12x2 + 6x – 8 has a height of 4x. What is the base of the rectangle?
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The area of a rectangle is found by multiplying the base times the height. A rectangle with an area represented by 12x2 + 6x – 8 has a height of 4x. What is the base of the rectangle?

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the answer will be 3x+3/2-2/x
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12x2 + 6x -8 is a quadratic equation so divide each term by 4x
answer 4x times (3x + 3/2 - 2/x) This means the base is (3x + 3/2 - 2/x)
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