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The perimeter of a rectangle is 82 cm the length is 1 cm more than three times the width find the length and the width of the rectangle

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The length will then be L = 18(41/19) = 738/19 cm.

As a check, the area should be A = LW = (738/19)(41/19) = 30258 cm2

sorry if this isn't much help but i had a similar problem once and i used the same steps for your question

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