A rectangular table is five times as long as it's wide if the area is 80 ft² to find the length in the width of the table

Answer 1

Let the width be x. Then the length is 5x (5 time as long).

Area = length x width = (x) (5x) = 80 (80 was given as the area)

5x^2 = 80

x^2 = 1 6

x = 4 and -4

you can't have a negative width, therefore the width is 4 and the length is 5(4) =20