The perimeter of a rectangle is 72 m. The width of the rectangle is 16 m. What is the area of the rectangle? please explain your steps

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Given that a side length is that means its parallel side is also 16. So 16 + 16 is 32 and 72 - 32 is 40 and 40 divided by 2, for two sides of the rectangle youll get 20. With the length being 20 and width being 16, 20 times 16 will get you 320m^2 which is the area.