Basic Geometry : How to find the perimeter of a square
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Example Question #61 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Square
Find the perimeter of a square with side length 2.
To solve, simply use the formula for the perimeter of a square. Thus,
Example Question #62 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Square
Find the perimeter of a square with side length of 2.
To solve, simply use the formula for the perimeter of a square. Thus,
If the formula escapes you, simply sum the sides. However, you must know that all the sides in a square are equal in order to add them up. Since they are equal, the formula just shows you that you can multiply one side by 4 instead of adding them all together.
Example Question #63 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Square
A square garden was made to put 8 plants that are 1.25 feet wide each on each side. The corner plants were included in two sides. What is the length of the perimeter?
Each side would be 10 feet long. A square has 4 sides.
The perimeter of a square is all the sides added together.
Since all the sides are equal in a square we can rewrite the equation to be,
Given
Therefore the perimeter is 40ft.
Example Question #63 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Square
If a linoleum tile is a perfect square and has an area of 
Using the formula for area of a square, we can find the length of the sides and solve for the perimeter:
Now that we have the length of our sides, we can solve for perimeter:
Example Question #501 : Quadrilaterals
If the area of a square is 12.25 square meters, what is its perimeter?
The area of a square is found by squaring the length of each side. That means we can figure out the length of the sides by taking the square root of 12.25.
The length of all 4 sides is 3.5 meters, since this is a square, so the perimeter is
Example Question #911 : Basic Geometry
In square ABCD, the length of line BC is 
In any square, the diagonal (BC) will always be equal to the length of any side multiplied by √2.
So, if the diagonal is equal to 2√2, then working backwards, you have to divide the diagonal length by √2.
So if the diagonal is equal to 2√2, then any given side should equal 2.
If you add up all the sides, your final answer is 8.
Example Question #252 : Squares
Find the perimeter, 
The formula for the perimeter of a square is
Example Question #911 : Plane Geometry
Know that in a Major League Baseball infield the distance between home plate and first base is 90 feet and the infield is a perfect square.
How many feet does a batter run when they hit a home run?
Because the baserunner is going in a perfect square, they run 90 feet four different times.
We can solve the total distance with the equation
Example Question #501 : Quadrilaterals
Know that in a Major League Baseball infield the distance between home plate and first base is 90 feet and the infield is a perfect square.
If a baserunner is standing on second base and their teammate hits a home run, how far does the baserunner run to reach home plate?
Because the baserunner is on second base, they only have to run from second base to third base and third base to home plate.
This means they run the length of two sides of the square.
So, they run
Example Question #66 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Square
Know that in a Major League Baseball infield the distance between home plate and first base is 90 feet and the infield is a perfect square.
If a batter is hits a triple and makes it all the way to third base how far did they run?
The batter runs from home plate to first base, first base to second base, and second base to third base.
That means they run three sides of the square infield.
So they ran 90 Feet three times.
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