The diagonal of a rectangular painting is . If the length is more than twice the width, what is the perimeter of this painting in ?
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If we call the width w , we can express the length as 2 w +5. We get the equation, concerning the diagonal:
w 2 + ( 2 w + 5 ) 2 = ( 5 9 7 ) 2
5 w 2 + 2 0 w + 2 5 = 2 4 2 5
w 2 + 4 w + 5 = 4 8 5 w 2 + 4 w − 4 8 0 = 0 .
We can now solve this using the quadratic formula to get w =20 and therefore length=45. The perimeter is 2 0 × 2 + 4 5 × 2 = 130 .