Extremely lost please help: The width of a rectangle is 2 less than twice its length. If the area of the rectangle is 88 cm 2 cm 2 , what is the length of the diagonal?

Question

The width of a rectangle is 2 less than twice its length. If the area of the rectangle is 88 cm2cm2, what is the length of the diagonal?

The length of the diagonal is   cm.

Give your answer to 2 decimal places.

Note: Since you are looking for the diagonal you will want to use the pythagorean theorem, a2+b2=c2a2+b2=c2

-I am extremely lost I would love if u could go into grate detail on how you are solving each step

Answer 1

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The above graph shows the length of the diagonal.