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A police officer seals off the scene of an accident using a roll of yellow tape that is 368 feet long. What dimensions should be used to seal off the maximum rectangular area around the collision?
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A police officer seals off the scene of an accident using a roll of yellow tape that is 368 feet long. What dimensions should be used to seal off the maximum rectangular area around the collision?

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The answer would be 92 by 92. Rectangular area only refers to the shape of the area. Squares are special types of rectangles.

368/4 equals 92.

I divided by 4 because a rectangle has four sides.
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