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Interpreting Calculated Dimensions for Office Floor Plans

You are reviewing floor plans for an office renovation. A rectangular meeting room has an area of 117 square feet, and its length is exactly 4 feet more than its width. When solving the quadratic equation 0=w2+4w117{}0 = w^2 + 4w - 117 to find the room's width (ww), you calculate two mathematical solutions. State the two numerical solutions, identify which one represents the actual width of the room, and briefly recall why the other solution must be discarded in this practical context.

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