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To make rectangles of different dimensions on a squared paper using 12 adjacent squares.Calculate length and breadth of each of the rectangles so formed. Note down the values in the following table

What do you observe? As length increases, breadth decreases and vice-versa (for constant area).
Are length and breadth inversely proportional to each other?

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