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A rectangular goat pen has an area of 152 square meters and a perimeter of 54 meters. What are the dimensions of the pen?

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Answer: length = 19 Width = 8

Explanation:

What I did was, knowing that LxW = 152 and L+L+W+W=54 I had to figure out what the factors of 152 was so I went from 1 and realized that 8 works.

8 x 19 = 152

16 + 38 = 54

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