marta has twenty 1-foot x 1foot square patio blocks to arrange in the shape of a rectangular in her back yard. She wants the perimeter of the rectangle to be greater than 20 feet. which arrangements can she use? please explain

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mertsj · Answer

What are the choices?

anonymous · Answer

There are no choices ur writing to explain

campbell_st · Answer

this is a problem about having as many edges in the perimeter as possible.. 

as an example a square with side length of 5 blocks... can be arranged to to have a perimeter of 28... with the square on the inside of the blocks.

Hopefully the badly drawn diagram will explain... the arrangement
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