The perimeter of a rectangle is 26 cm and the length is 36 cm. What is the area of the rectangle?

Please proofread and repost. The perimeter cannot be less than the length.

How the length can be larger of the perimeter ?????

To find the area of a rectangle, we need to know its length and width. In this case, we only know the length of the rectangle, but we can use the given information about the perimeter to find its width.

The perimeter of a rectangle is calculated by adding up the lengths of all four sides. For a rectangle, opposite sides have equal lengths. Since we are given that the perimeter is 26 cm, we can divide it by 2 to get the sum of just two opposite sides.

26 cm ÷ 2 = 13 cm

Since the length of the rectangle is 36 cm, we can subtract the length from the half-perimeter to get the width.

13 cm - 36 cm = -23 cm

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