## anonymous one year ago Gene wrote this equation for the area of a rectangle. 26.4w = 285.12. What is the width (w) of this rectangle? A. 10.8 units B. 11.0 units C. 258.7 units D. 7527.2 units

1. anonymous

What is the relation between 26.4 and w?

2. anonymous

its the width i think

3. anonymous

I mean, what is the relation between the 26.4 and the w? I already know what the w stands for.

4. anonymous

idk

5. anonymous

Are they being added? Subtracted? Multiplied? Divided?

6. anonymous

multiplied i think

7. anonymous

And what's the opposite of multiplication?

8. anonymous

division

9. anonymous

So to get the w alone, divide 26.4 on both sides.

10. anonymous

i dont get it

11. anonymous

$\large \frac{26.4w}{26.4}~=~\frac{285.12}{26.4}$

12. anonymous

1 and 10.8

13. anonymous

It would look like this right? $\large w~=~10.8$ So that means that w is 10.8 units

14. anonymous

yes??

15. anonymous

Then you're done, the answer is 10.8. Understand how we got it?

16. anonymous

yes