Question

13. The area of the rectangle shown below is 2x2 - x - 15 square units. What is the

width of the rectangle?
2x + 5

Answer 1

width = (x - 3)

Explanation:

2x² - x - 15 has two factors, one of which is '2x + 5'

we can find the other factor to be 'x - 3', which represents the width