Question

The area of a rectangle is 414 square meters. The length is 18 meters. What is the width? Show work, please.

Answer 1

The width is 23 meters

Explanation:

Area of a rectangle is calculated by length times width and can be modeled by the following equation:

l*w=A

Now, we can plug the values in that we already know.

18w=414

To reverse the multiplication going on here, we need to do the inverse which is division.

So we divide both sides by 18.

w=23