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The ancient Greeks thought that the most pleasing shape for a rectangle was one for which the ratio of the length to the width was approximately 8 to 5, the golden ratio. If the length of a rectangular painting is 2 ft longer than its width, then for what dimensions would the length and width have the golden ratio?

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Let the width of the rectangular painting be x ft.
Given that the length of the rectangular painting is 2 ft longer than its width.
Therefore, the length of the ...

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