Two adjacent sides of a parallelogram are in the ratio of 3:2. The perimeter of it is 72cm. Find the length of each of its sides?
2 Answers
Apr 9, 2018
21.6cm and 14.4cm
Explanation:
Let one side be
This makes the perimeter
Apr 9, 2018
The longer sides are 21.6cm in length and the shorter sides are 14.4cm in length.
Explanation:
As the opposite sides of a parallelogram are equal in length...
the perimeter for a parallelogram is the sum of it`s sides. So, the equation would be as follows.
this would be...
solving for x...
which is...
now we substitute the value of 'x' in...
we see...
i.e...
hence the lengths for each sides are as follows...
- 21.6cm
- 14.4cm
- 21.6cm
- 14.4cm