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Find a missing side length when given area

Problem

The rug has an area of 20 square meters. The width of the rug is 4 meters.
A curved bracket across the shorter top side of the rectangle is labeled 4 meters. A curved bracket across the longer left side of the rectangle is labeled length.
What is the length of the rug?
  • Your answer should be
  • an integer, like 6
  • a simplified proper fraction, like 3/5
  • a simplified improper fraction, like 7/4
  • a mixed number, like 1 3/4
  • an exact decimal, like 0.75
  • a multiple of pi, like 12 pi or 2/3 pi
meters
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