Question

The area of a rectangle is the product of its length and width .Suppose the area of a rectangle is 24 in 2.What are the possible whole number measurements of its length and width?

Answer 1

The area is 24 square inches. So its dimensions in inches
must be factor-pairs of 24 .

Those are

1 x 24
2 x 12
3 x 8
or
4 x 6 .