the area of the rectangular tabletop at the right is 3 square meters. If the width is 0.5 m shorter than the length, what are the dimension of the tableshop?

Answer 1

If the length is x, the width is x-.5 so

x(x-0.5)=3
Now just solve for x

Answer 2

the area of a table top is 3 square meters.what is the are in square centimetera (cm)3