rectangular painting

Geometry Level 1

The diagonal of a rectangular painting is 5 97 cm 5\sqrt{97}~\text{cm} . If the length is 5 cm 5~\text{cm} more than twice the width, what is the perimeter of this painting in cm \text{cm} ?


The answer is 130.

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1 solution

Theodore Sinclair
Mar 24, 2018

If we call the width w w , we can express the length as 2 w w +5. We get the equation, concerning the diagonal:

w 2 w^{2} + ( 2 w + 5 ) 2 (2w+5)^{2} = ( 5 97 ) 2 (5\sqrt{97} )^{2}
5 w 2 + 20 w + 25 = 2425 5w^{2}+20w+25=2425
w 2 + 4 w + 5 = 485 w^{2}+4w+5=485 w 2 + 4 w 480 = 0 w^{2}+4w-480=0 .

We can now solve this using the quadratic formula to get w w =20 and therefore length=45. The perimeter is 20 × 2 + 45 × 2 20 \times 2 + 45 \times 2 = 130 .

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