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The area of a rectangular garden is 7 square yards. List all possible whole-number dimensions the garden can have. The whole-number dimensions, 1 and 7, of the rectangular garden above, are the factors of the number 7. A prime number has only two factors: 1 and itself... A composite number has more than two factors.
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