Saturday, September 12, 2009

Solve it - Question 6

Dear All

A rectangle with perimeter 44 units is partitioned into 5 congruent rectangles, as indicated in the diagram. Find the perimeter of each of the congruent rectangle.

I hope that the hint figure given below will help you to answer this!

3 comments:

  1. Well sir, I think each rectangle will have the perimeter equals to 24 units...i concluded just with hit and trial...do post the correct answer as well as the correct approach to go about such questions !

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  2. well... the correct answer is 20 units!

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