Question

Perimeter of a rectangle is 72 inches. The width is twice

the lenth. What is the width and length?

Answer 1

36

Explanation:

72 divided by four because its perimeter and you get 18 on each side since the width is double then you would do 18x2 and get 36.

Answer 2

24″ width, 12″ length. Let the length be X inches, then width is 2X inches, giving perimeter 2(X+2X)=6X inches, which is 72″. hence X, length =12″, and width 24″. The perimeter of a rectangle is 64 m.

Explanation:

There ya go,