Friday, January 8, 2010

How do you get a perimeter of an object?

how?How do you get a perimeter of an object?
The perimeter of a shape is the distance around it (add up all the sides.)





An 'object' is 3 dimensional and does not have a perimeter as such. 'Perimeter' usually applies to 2-dimensional shapes only.How do you get a perimeter of an object?
add all of its sides.
add all the sides of the path you take
add up all of its sides (i learned it like 5 years ago)
just add the lengths of the sides.
The perimeter of an object is the sum of all its sides.


Just add all the sides together and you have your perimeter for that object.


For example:


Find the perimeter of the rectangle with sides with lengths of 4 in and 5 in


A rectangle has 4 sides, with 2 pairs of equal-length sides


4 in + 4 in + 5 in + 5 in = 18 in


18 inches is the perimter of the rectangle
add up the sides, but if it's a square, just take one and multiply it by 4.
you can If the object is in two-dimension, use a rope to measure the perimeter.

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