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You can draw more 36 cm square rectangles than 23 cm square rectangles if the side length must be whole numbers. why is that?
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You can draw more 36 cm square rectangles than 23 cm square rectangles if the side length must be whole numbers. why is that?

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If the side lengths must be whole numbers, then they must be factors
of the area.

36 has more whole-number factors (9 of them) than 23 has (2 of them).


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