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Question from makiah, a student: A rectangle has a perimeter of 12 meters.If each side is a whole number of meters, |
Makiah,
The perimeter is
length + width + length + width
and hence
length + width = 6 meters.
What are the possible positive integer choices for the length and width? For example one possible choices are length = 5 meters and width = 1 meter but not length = 1 meter and width = 5 meters since the width can't be larger than the length.
Penny
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