Homework Help: algebra

Posted by allen on Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 7:54pm.

find the lenngth of each side of the rectangle so that it has the given perimeter.

p= 50 in
length is 2L-5
width is L

is my formaula i am needing to do this

50=2L-5+2*L

i am looking at the formula
of
P=2L+2W
do i have this written right

should have been

50 = 2(2L-5) + 2L

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