The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangle is 10:6. if the perimeter of the rectangle is 160 meters, what is the measure of the width?

Answer 1

The ratio of the length to width is 10:6, which can be reduced to 5:3

If width is x, then length is 5/3x

perimeter = 2*length + 2*width = 2(5/3x) + 2x = 10/3x + 2x = 16/3x = 160

16 x = 160

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3

16x = 480

x = 30

width is 30

Answer 2

Then the length consists of (10/16) of the perimeter and the width is (6/16) of the perimeter

10/16*160 = 10/16 *160/1 = 1600/16 = 100 for both lengths

and

6/16 * 160 = 6/16 *160/1 = 960/16 = 60 for both widths

length is 50 and the width is 30