You are planning on retiling your bathroom floor and buy 96 square feet of tile. If the length of the bathroom is one and a half times the width, what is the width?
4 feet
8 feet
10 feet
12 feet

8 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that 96 sq. feet of tile is bought to retile the bathroom.

It means area of bathroom is 96 sq. feet

Width of bathroom be x

Given that the length of the bathroom is  one and a half times the width

Length of bathroom in term sod width = 1 1/2* x = 3/2 x

we know area of rectangle is given by length * width

therefore area of bathroom =( x* 3/2 x) = 3/2 x^2

Also area of  bathroom is 86 sq. feet, therefore

Thus, width of bathroom is 8 feet.

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