What is the perimeter of a rectangle with a width of 23.6 cm and a length of 52.9 cm?
1 Answer
Jun 25, 2016
Explanation:
A perimeter is a distance. It is the distance around the outside of a shape. In this case there is a rectangle, which has 4 sides, 2 longer ones (lengths) and 2 shorter ones(breadths).
Add them all together:
This can also be written as
Or you might prefer to use:
As long as you include all of the 4 sides, any of these is fine, they will give the same answer. Because is it a distance, the units of the perimeter are cm. (or m, km, miles inches etc)
