The perimeter of a parallelogram is 72 meters. the width of the parallelogram is 4 meters less than it’s length. find the length and the width of the parallelogram?

The width would be x-4 and  

Length would be x  

Add all of the sides together  

(x-4)+(x-4) + x + x =72,

Which would come out

4x-8=72

Subtract 8 fro, 72 and you get 64  

Then divided 64 by 4

So. Width is 16 and length is 20 .         given (x-4)  

start with a line segment pq that we will copy. mark a point r that will be one endpoint of the new line segment. set the compasses' point on the point p of the line segment to be copied. adjust the compasses' width to the point q. the compasses' width is now equal to the length of the line segment pq.

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