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One side of a 141 square foot rectangular room is 15 feet long. How long is the other side?

Please help One side of a 141 square foot rectangular room is 15 feet long. How long-example-1
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Answer:

9.4ft²

Explanation:

The formula for the area of a rectangle is base*height, or b*h.

Since we know the final area of the room and one of the side lengths, we can plug those into the formula I just stated so that we get

15*h=141

All that's left to do is solve for h, which is the other side that we are solving for. To do this, we will divide 15 on both sides:

15h/15=141/15

The 15s on the left side cancel out, and we simply divide 141 by 15 to get our final answer of 9.4ft².

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