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ACT Math: Plane Geometry Drill 2, Problem 1. What is the perimeter of the shape shown?
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Here is your shmoop de jour...
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What is the perimeter of the shape below?
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And here are the potential answers...
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Okay the key thing we have to notice here is this distance 4
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which is exactly half of this distance 8
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and this distance 3 which is exactly half of this distance 6
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Suddenly have a right triangle with sides 3 he ran for their
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and thanks to Pythagoras we know that a squared plus B squared equals C squared
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that 3 squared 9 plus 4 squared 16
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equals by square 25 take the square root of 25 and thats how we got 5
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thing. Now just add the perimeter lines and we have 3 plus
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8 plus 6 plus 4 plus 5 and our perimeter here is 26.
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Answer D.
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