Question

One side of a rectangle is 12 yd shorter than three times another side. The area of the rectangle is 756

yd. Find the length of the shorter side.

Answer 1

1. One side of a rectangle is 4 in shorter than three times the other side. Find the sides if the

perimeter of the rectangle is 48 in.

Solution: Let us denote the shorter side by x: Then the other side is 3x

We now apply the zero property. Either x