A rectangular room is 3 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 64 meters. Find the dimens

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    math_celebrity Administrator Staff Member

    A rectangular room is 3 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 64 meters. Find the dimension of the room.

    We're given:
    • l = 3w
    • P = 64
    We also know the perimeter of a rectangle is:
    2l + 2w = P

    We plugin l = 3w and P = 64 into the perimeter equation:
    2(3w) + 2w = 64

    Multiply through to remove the parentheses:
    6w + 2w = 64

    To solve this equation for w, we type it in our search engine and we get:
    w = 8

    To solve for l, we plug w = 8 into the l = 3w equation above:
    l = 3(8)
    l = 24
     

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