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The length of a rectangle is 5 more than twice the width. The perimeter is 76. What is the length?

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the answer is 27. if you take the clues given in the question, the equation for the length will be ‘2w+5’. add all of the w’s for width around and the constants and your equation will the become 6w+10=76. after you find the width, plug it into ‘2w+5’ and you will get your length.
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