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you add up the distance of all the sides

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Q: How do you figure out the perimeter of shape?
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What is the shape for a figure to have a perimeter of 20 and an area of 18?

Perimeter and area are not sufficient to determine the shape of a figure.


What is explain of a shape with a perimeter of 10cm?

The explanation is that the perimeter is the distance around a figure.


How do you find the perimeter of a heptagon shape?

You find perimeter by adding all the sides of a figure.


What shape has a perimeter of 17cm?

Any shape you want. "Perimeter" is not some esoteric function, it is merely the total measurement of the sides of the figure.


How do you do the perimeter of a shape?

-- Measure or figure out the length of each side. -- Add up all the lengths of all the sides. -- The answer is the perimeter of the shape.


The distance around a shape is called?

It is called perimeter.


What is the perimeter of the figure 4ft 7ft?

The answer will depend on the shape of the figure! If a rectangle, then 22 ft.


What is the perimeter of 19 acres?

That depends on the shape of the figure. You can't deduce the perimeter knowing only the area.


Can you give me a figure to find the perimeter?

Perimeter of what? A circle diameter times Pi. Another shape the sum of all sides.


What is perimeter of a L shape figure?

If the shape is in the form of a wide letter L, then the perimeter is the same as the height of the letter L x the width of the base of the letter L.


Is it possible for the perimeter of a figure to change?

no If the shape of the object is not fixed, it would be possible to alter the shape of the perimeter, but not the length, i.e., the distance around the object being enclosed.


If the area is 9 sq cm what is the perimeter?

It's undefined, because we dont know the shape of the figure. If it's a square, the perimeter is 12.. if its a rectangle the perimeter MIGHT be 20... We cant determine if we dont know the figure.