The area of a rectangle is x2 - 5x – 36. What is the length and width?

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Answer:

(x-9)(x+4)

Explanation:

We can solve this by factoring
x^2 -5x -36 = (x-9)(x+4)

This gives us our two sides because length and width multiplied will give us the area

Alexsa answered Dec 24, 2022

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