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Understanding

1 Complete:

a 5 metres = ⬚ centimetres b 7 centimetres = ⬚ millimetres


c 9 kilometres = ⬚ metres d 2.5 metres = ⬚ millimetres

2 A regular hexagon has six equal sides. One way to calculate the perimeter is to add the six
side lengths. What is another way to find the perimeter of this shape?

3 Identify the shape given the information:

a Perimeter of 20 cm and sides of length 5 cm, 5 cm, 5 cm, and 5 cm


b Perimeter of 95 m and sides of length 43 m, 26 m, and 26 m
c Perimeter of 30 mm and sides of length 5 mm each
d Perimeter of 170 cm and sides of length 17 mm each
e Perimeter of 22 m and sides of length 6 m, 5 m, 6 m, and 5 m

Fluency

4 Find the perimeter, given each square is 1 unit in length:

a b

5 Find the perimeter:

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a b

6 Find the perimeter of a rectangle given the dimensions:

a Length: 20 m, Width: 7 m b Length: 15.5 m, Width: 12.5 m

Example 1

7 Find the perimeter of the tile:

8 Find the perimeter:

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a b

c d

9 Find the perimeter of:

a An equilateral triangle with a side length of 15 m


b A scalene triangle with side lengths 18 mm, 25 mm and 32 mm
c An isosceles triangle where the 2 equal side lengths are 25 mm and the third side
measures 5 cm

10 Find the difference between the perimeter of the square and the perimeter of the rectangle:

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Example 2

11 Find the perimeter:

12 Find the perimeter of:

a A regular hexagon where the length of each side is 9 cm


b A regular decagon where the length of each side is 16 mm
c A regular pentagon where the length of each side is 12 m

13 Given the perimeter, P , of the shape, find the value of the variable:

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a b

P = 86 m

P = 53 cm

14 A rectangle has a perimeter of 110 cm. If it has a length of 26 cm, find its width.

15 Find the side length of a square with a


perimeter of 32 m:

Example 3

16 A square has a perimeter of 44 mm. Find the side length of the square.

17 Use Pythagoras' theorem to find the missing side and then calculate the perimeter of the
triangle, rounded to two decimal places.

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a b

18 Find the side length of an equilateral triangle that has a perimeter of 57 m.

19 An isosceles triangle has equal sides of length 25 cm and a perimeter of 60 cm. Find the
length of the third side.

20 Find the side length of:

a A regular pentagon with a perimeter of 55 cm


b An equilateral triangle with a perimeter of 36 m
c A regular octagon with a perimeter of 720 mm

21 Write an algebraic expression for the perimeter of quadrilateral AGHF where F is the
centre of the circle:

Example 4

22 Write an algebraic expression for the perimeter of this triangle:

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23 Write an algebraic expression for the perimeter of this rectangle:

24 Each pair of rectangles has the same perimeter. Find the value of x.

a b

Example 5

Reasoning

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25 A rectangle has a perimeter of 36 cm. Find all possible dimensions of the rectangle, given
that the sides are whole numbers. Explain how the dimensions can be found.

26 Give the whole number dimensions of a square and the rectangle with the same perimeter.
Write an expression for the relationship between the side lengths of the square and
rectangle.

27 In a polygon with n sides, what is the relationship between the perimeter and the length of
each side?

28 Determine if each statement is true or false. Justify your answer.

a The perimeter of a square with side length 6 cm is equal to the perimeter of a rectangle
with length 9 cm and width 3 cm.
b If the perimeter of a regular hexagon is 48 cm then the length of each side is 8 cm.
c The perimeter of a rectangle can never be equal to the perimeter of a square.
d The perimeter of a triangle is always less than the perimeter of a rectangle with the same
base and height.

Problem-solving

29 Francesca wants to build a thin wooden frame for a picture that is 18 cm long and 8 cm wide.
How much wood will she need to frame the picture?

30 A square has the same perimeter as an equilateral triangle. If the triangle has sides of length
55 mm, find the side length of the square rounded to two decimal places.

31 A rectangular piece of astroturf is placed


inside a rectangular area of lawn as shown.

a If both the astroturf and the grass area


are to be fully fenced, calculate the total
amount of fencing required.
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b If the fencing costs $25.60 per metre,
calculate the total cost of the fencing.

32 Find the value of x given the perimeter of the billboard is 74 m.

33 A path surrounds a swimming pool. Find the value of x given the perimeter of the outside of
the path is 68 m.

34 A carpenter is calculating the amount of timber required to build a roof truss frame as shown
by triangle ABC in the diagram. The carpenter knows that the base BC is 12 m and the
perpendicular height is 4 m.
Calculate the amount of timber required for the roof truss frame, rounded to two decimal
places.

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