Twice the Perimeter

Geometry Level 1

Square A has an area of 16.
Square B has twice the perimeter of Square A. What is the area of a Square B?

32 64 16 8

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3 solutions

Gandoff Tan
Sep 13, 2019

A B A A = ( B A ) 2 A B 16 = ( 2 ) 2 A B = 16 × 4 = 64 \begin{aligned} \frac{A_B}{A_A}&=\left(\frac{ℓ_B}{ℓ_A}\right)^2\\ \frac{A_B}{16}&=(2)^2\\ A_B&=16\times 4\\ &=\boxed{64} \end{aligned}

The side length of square A A is 16 = 4 \sqrt{16}=4 . The perimeter is 4 ( 4 ) = 16 4(4)=16 . So the perimeter of square B B is 2 ( 16 ) = 32 2(16)=32 . The side length of square B B is 32 4 = 8 \dfrac{32}{4}=8 . So the area of square B B is 8 2 = 64 8^2=\boxed{64}

X X
Jul 26, 2018

The side length of A is 16 = 4 \sqrt{16}=4 ,so the side length of B is 4 × 2 = 8 4\times2=8 ,so the area of B is 8 2 = 64 8^2=64

Faster way is that if the perimeter doubles,then the area will times 4,so 16 × 4 = 64 16\times4=64

I was going for the faster way, but couldn't find nice numbers to work with.

I wanted them to be square (so that it's easy to do the slow way) and yet not square (so that it's easy to do the slow way).

Chung Kevin - 2 years, 10 months ago

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