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The length of a wall is 5/4 times of its height. If the area of the wall be `180 m^(2)`. What is the sum of the length and height of the wall ?

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Let the length be 5x and height be 4x.
then `1xxh=180=5x xx4x=20x^2impliesx=3`
`therfore 1+h=15+12=27m`
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