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The name of the larger side of a rectangle is length
You can't unless you know something else about the rectangle, such as the short side is 1 less than the long side. A rectangle of 2 by 3 and a rectangle of 1 by 6 both have an area of 6.
32 inches squared
You can set up a proportion and solve for the unknown side. Say that your rectangle has a short side that measures 4. The long side, unknown at this time, is x. The scale factor of the long side to the short side is 2/1 or 2:1. That would mean that the ratio of the actual side measurements, long side to short side, would be x/4. Set up a proportion where that ratio and the scale factor are equal to each other. Cross multiply and solve for x. x/4 = 2/1 x = 8 The long side of the rectangle would measure 8.
rectangle with long side being 11.5 units and short side being 2 units