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Example Questions

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Triangle In Pre Algebra

What is the perimeter of a triangle with side lengths of ,, and ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the perimeter of a triangle you must add all of the side lengths together.

In this case our equation would look like 

Add the numbers together to get the answer .

Example Question #621 : High School Math

What is the perimeter of a triangle with side lengths of , and  ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the perimeter of a triangle you must add all of the side lengths together.

In this case our equation would look like 

Add the numbers together to get the answer .

Example Question #4 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Triangle In Pre Algebra

What is the perimeter of a triangle with side lengths of 

 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the perimeter of a triangle you must add all of the side lengths together.

In this case our equation would look like 

Add the numbers together to get the answer .

Example Question #5 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Triangle In Pre Algebra

What is the perimeter of a triangle with side lengths of , and ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the perimeter of a triangle you must add the three side lengths together.

In this case our equation would look like 

Add the numbers together to get the answer .

Example Question #622 : High School Math

What is the perimeter of a triangle with side lengths of , and ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the perimeter of a triangle, add the lengths of all sides together:

Example Question #623 : High School Math

What is the perimeter of an equilateral triangle if one side is ?

Possible Answers:

We need to know the lengths of the other sides to solve.

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The perimeter is the sum of the sides of the triangle. Because the triangle is equilateral, all three sides have equal length.

That means we can take the formula 

and say .

 

Example Question #624 : High School Math

Find the perimeter of a square with a side of 4 meters. 

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

Since each side in a square is equal, and perimeter involves adding up all of the sides, multiply 4 by 4 to get 16 meters. 

Example Question #2 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Square In Pre Algebra

What is the perimeter of a square with a side length of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the perimeter of a square you must multiply the side length by .

To do this we plug the side length into the equation 

Multiply the side length, , by  to get the answer .

Example Question #3 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Square In Pre Algebra

What is the perimeter of the square with a side length of ?

Possible Answers:

There is insufficient information to solve.

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The way to find the perimeter of a square is to add up the lengths of all the sides. Since this is a square, each side will have the same length; if one of the sides is , the other sides will be 8 as well.

From here: 

Example Question #4 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Square In Pre Algebra

What is the perimeter of a square if one side is ?

Possible Answers:

We need to know the lengths of the other sides in order to be able to solve.

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Each of the sides of a square is equal. This means we can take the formula for the perimeter of a rectangle, , and say that, for a square, .

Since the problem gives us the length of the side, we can solve:

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