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The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line
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08 Oct 2018, 12:33
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The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line segment were to be drawn from A to B, it would have a length of \(8 \sqrt{2}\) units. What is the perimeter of the entire figure in units?
A. 20
B. 32
C. 40
D. 64
E. 80
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What is the explanation to this question? is the "figure" the whole shaded region or the triangle created with AB as hypothenuse?
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01 Jul 2019, 04:47
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This becomes a triangle which has the angles in the ratio of \(45:45:90\) or \(x:x:x\sqrt{2}\)
We do know this because the segment AB is \(8\sqrt{2}\)
which means that the other sides are 8
One side of a square is 4.
We want to know the perimeter of the shaded region which has 10 sides
\(4 \times 10 = 40\)
C is the answer
