Question

The perimeter of a rectangle vegetable patch is 68 meters The vegetable patch is 24 meters long how wide is it

Answer 1

10 meters

Explanation:

Given a rectangle with perimeter 68 meters and length 24 meters, you want to know the width.

Perimeter

The formula for the perimeter of a rectangle is ...

P = 2(L +W)

Application

Filling in given values, we can solve for the width.

68 = 2(24 +W)

34 = 24 +W . . . . . . . divide by 2

10 = W . . . . . . . . . subtract 24

The vegetable patch is 10 meters wide.