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3.1 Calculating Perimeter
Imagine that you are going to walk the side lines around a football pitch with the following measurements.
How far have you walked when you have gone around once?
You have walked:
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60 m + 100 m + 60 m + 100 m = 320 m
This distance, 320 m, is the measurement of the perimeter. Perimeter is the measure for how far it is around the side of a figure.
Here we see a rectangle with the sides a and b. The perimeter, which we express as P, then becomes:
P = a + b + a + b =
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