Question #N125
The area of a rectangle is 180 square centimeters. The length of the rectangle is 15 centimeters. What is the width, in centimeters, of the rectangle?
A. 12
B. 15
C. 33
D. 270
Correct Answer is: A
The area of a rectangle is equal to its length multiplied by its width. Let represent the width of the rectangle. The area of the rectangle is 180 square centimeters, and the length of the rectangle is 15 centimeters, so . Dividing both sides of this equation by 15 yields or . Therefore, the width of the rectangle is 12 centimeters.