Perimeter of a rectangle

Geometry Level 1

The ratio of the shorter side to longer side of a rectangle is 1:2. If the area of this rectangle is 50, what is its perimeter?

40 30 25 35

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2 solutions

Chew-Seong Cheong
Jan 19, 2018

Let the shorter side of the rectangle be a a . Then the longer side is 2 a 2a . Therefore, the area of the rectangle is A = 2 a 2 = 50 a 2 = 25 a = 5 A = 2a^2 = 50 \implies a^2 = 25 \implies a = 5 . The perimeter of the rectangle is p = 2 ( a + 2 a ) = 6 a = 6 ( 5 ) = 30 p = 2(a+2a) = 6a = 6(5) = \boxed{30} .

Let l l be the longer side and w w be the shorter side, then we have

50 = l w 50=lw \color{#D61F06}\implies 1 \boxed{1}

w l = 1 2 \dfrac{w}{l}=\dfrac{1}{2} \color{#D61F06}\implies 2 \boxed{2}

From these 2 2 equations we get: w = 5 w=5 and l = 10 l=10 . So the perimeter is 10 + 10 + 5 + 5 = 30 10+10+5+5=\color{#3D99F6}\boxed{30}

@Engr. Marvin Kalngan , it is a standard in Brilliant.org that when numbers are on their own, they need not to be in LaTex.

Chew-Seong Cheong - 3 years, 4 months ago

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