Question

Help with perimeter? c:

Answer 1

How do I calculate the perimeter of these three?

Answer 2

For the horizontal and vertical lines, count how long they are

for the slanted lines, notice you can form a right triangle with legs of length 2 (wide) and 6 (height)
you can use pythagoras to find the length of the slanted side (it is the hypotenuse)

Answer 3

I don't really understand :/

Answer 4

what exactly is the question ?

Answer 5

"Calculate the perimeter of each room and the cost of baseboards or wallpaper boarders."

Answer 6

You know the perimeter is the distance around the figure.
can you figure out the lengths of 3 of the 4 sides of the kitchen ?

Answer 7

by counting the squares

Answer 8

11 is the length, and the with is 6

Answer 9

what about the bottom edge ?

Answer 10

that's 9

Answer 11

so the perimeter is 11+6 + 9 + x

the x is the length of the slanted side on the right.

Answer 12

you can make a triangle. start at the top and go straight down
then go over 2 squares