Question

Veronica is framing a rectangular picture. She uses 72 inches of framing. The picture is 20 inches long. What is the width of the picture?

Answer 1

3.6

Explanation:

Using the area of rectangle formula L*W= A

we can plug in our known values

20*w=72

then we can divide 20 on both sides giving us 3.6 inches for width.