My neighbor is buying new carpet for her bedroom floor. The length of the bedroom is 16 feet. The area of the bedroom is 288 square feet. How wide is my neighbor's bedroom?

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Bernard Ingram

Mathematics

31 October, 10:50

My neighbor is buying new carpet for her bedroom floor. The length of the bedroom is 16 feet. The area of the bedroom is 288 square feet. How wide is my neighbor's bedroom?

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Aliya Guerra · Answer 1

The width of my neighbor,'s room is 18 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

My neighbor is buying new carpet for her bedroom floor. The length of the bedroom is 16 feet. The room has the shape of a rectangle. Although it was not mentioned, we can tell from the area of the room given. If the room was a square, all the sides would have been equal. Since it's a rectangle having length and width of different sizes.

Area = length * width

Area = 288 square feet

Length = 16 feet

Width = 288/16 = 18 feet

The width of the room is longer than the length of the room