Question

The length of a rectangle is 6 meters more than three times the width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 44 meters. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?

Answer 1

width=4

length=18

Explanation:

length-6=3width

length=3width+6

also:

perimeter of the rectangle=2(length+width)

44/2=width+length

22=width+length

now put the length we found in the 1st equation, in 22=width+length

=>22=width+3width+6

22-6=4width

width=4

now do the exact same thing with one of these equations:

22=width+length

length=3width+6

I'd do it with the 1st one:

22=4+length

22-4= length

length=18