How long is the shorter side of a rectangle when one side is 2 times longer then the other and the area is 15?

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asked Jan 16, 2019 231k views

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Jdlm · Answer 1 · 2019-01-20T09:41:47+0000

"Two times longer" is taken to mean "two times as long".

The rectangle can be divided into two squares of area 7.5, so the short side is

... √7.5 ≈ 2.739