The length of a rectangle is 6 less than the width. The area of the rectangle is 72 in2. Suppose 'x' represents the width, draw and label a diagram to set up an equation to solve for x. Then find the
dimensions of the rectangle.

Arley is building a model of a city map. in one part of the city, three roads form a right triangle, which harley draws as triangle abc, with the following measures: m∠b=90° and m∠a=30°. in his scale model, the hypotenuse of triangle abc, ac¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯, has a length of 817−−√ cm. what is the value of a (the length of bc¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯)?