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 The area of a rectangle is 8x^2+14x+3. The length is 2x+3. What is the width?

 Feb 5, 2015

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Notice that 8x2 + 14x + 3 can be factored as (2x + 3)(4x + 1)

 

This should help.

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 Feb 5, 2015
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Notice that 8x2 + 14x + 3 can be factored as (2x + 3)(4x + 1)

 

This should help.

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Alan Feb 5, 2015
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A = 8x^2+14x+3

Notice that this factors as

(2x + 3)(4x + 1)

And since 2x + 3 is the length

Then, 4x + 1  must be the width ....  since L x W  = A

 

 Feb 5, 2015
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THX VERY MUCH!

 Feb 5, 2015

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