IXL | Find the missing side length of a rectangle: word problems

A blanket has an area of 20 square feet and a length of 5 feet. What is its width?

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An artist draws a tiny rectangle. It has an area of 60 square millimeters and a width of 6 millimeters. What is its height?

millimeters

The area of a rectangle is equal to its length times its width.

The rectangle has an area of 60 square millimeters and a width of 6 millimeters.

millimeters

square millimeters

The area is equal to the width times the height.

To find the height, you can think of a multiplication fact you know.

Or, you can use a related division fact.

The height is 10

millimeters.

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