To calculate the perimeter, label and add up the length of each side. This shape is made from two rectangles. What is the perimeter of this shape? First, calculate the missing lengths \(x\) and \(y\).

The perimeter is the total distance around the edge of a 2D shape. Examples of units of distance are millimetres (mm), centimetres (cm) and metres (m). The perimeter of any 2D shape can be found ...

Being two-dimensional, the inhabitants of Flatland appear as lines to one another. They discern one another's shape both by touching and by seeing how the lines appear to change in length as the ...