Asked by bob

The area of a rectangle is found by multiplying the base times the height. A rectangle with an area represented by 12x2 + 6x – 8 has a height of 4x.

What is the base of the rectangle?

3x + –
3x2 + –
3x + –
3x + –

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Base = (12x^2 + 6x − 8) / (4x) = (6x^2 + 3x − 4) / (2x).

Equivalently, Base = 3x + 3/2 − 2/x (for x ≠ 0).