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A rectangle has a length of 8 and a width of 3, two squares with sides equal to the width of the rectangle are placed in the rectangle. What is the area of each square?

a. 9
b. 16
c. 20
e. 25
f. 49

please answer and explain

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  1. A, because all sides of a square are the same length. If the width of the square is 3 then the length will be 3. LxW=area

    3x3=9 so it's A.

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