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Let the width of the rectangular prism be y

Therefore we can write all the measurements of the rectangular prism in terms of y.

width = y

length = 2y

height = y + 4

Finding the volume of the rectangular prism

y x 2y x (y + 4) = 48

2y2(y+4) = 48

y2(y+4) = 24

From this equation, we can see that y must equal 2 (22 x 6 = 24)

Therefore the width of the rectangular prism is 2m.

Note that in this question, when we got to the equation y2(y+4) = 24, we used 'guess and check' to find that y was. We purposely avoided expanding the bracket as this would have left us with a cubic to solve, which is quite difficult to solve analytically unless you already know one of its roots.

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