Question

The area of a rectangle is 62 square inches. The length of the rectangle is 8 inches.

what is the width of the rectangle? Thank you so much to whoever helps.

Answer 1

7.75 inches

Explanation:

The easiest way to find this is to use invert operations. When we have to find a variable, say we have to find a variable's worth in this problem:

a+5=10

Then what do we do? We subtract, which is the inverted operation of adding.

So here, because the operation for finding area of multiplication, we will do division.

What will we divide? Well, we'll divide 62 by 8 to get our answer which is the WIDTH of the rectangle!

62/8=7.75

Hence, the width of the rectangle is 7.75 inches.