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The perimeter of a rectangular swimming pool is 154 m. Its length is 2 m more than twice its breadth. What are the length and the breadth of the pool?

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The perimeter of a rectangular swimming pool is 154 m. Its length is 2 m more than twice its breadth. What are the length and the breadth of the pool?

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Let the breadth of rectangular swimming pool be x metres.

Then, its length =(2x + 2) metres.

We know that the Perimeter of a rectangle

= 2(Length + Breadth)

= 2(2x + 2 + x) = 6x + 4

=2(2x + 2 + x) = 6x + 4

According to the given condition, we have

6x + 4 = 154

⇒ 6x = 154 − 4 ..[By transposing 4 to RHS]

⇒ 6x = 150

⇒\(\frac{x}{6}\) = \(\frac{150}{6}\)   ...[Dividing both sides by ]

x = 25

Thus, breadth  m and length  m

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