Question

A rectangular room is 7 times as long as it's wide and it's perimeter is 64metres. Find the dimension of the room.

Answer 1

• Length = 28 meters
• Width = 4 meters

Explanation:

Assume the width of the rectangle is x. That means that the length of the rectangle is 7x which is 7 times as long as it is wide.

Perimeter of a rectangle:

= Length + length + Width + Width

Therefore:

7x + 7x + x + x = 64

16x = 64

x = 64/16

x = 4 meters

Length is 7 times as long:

= 4 * 7

= 28 meters