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Given the rectangle above, what is a possible representation of the area?

Given the rectangle above, what is a possible representation of the area?-example-1
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The area of a rectangle is it's width multiplied by it's length.

For this rectangle, it's lenght is:


L=x+5

And it's width is


W=x

When you multiply both of them you get the area A:


A=L\cdot W=(x+5)\cdot x

It can also be writen as:


A=x^2+5x

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