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A professional basketball court is in the shape of a rectangle. It is 50 feet wide and 94 feet long. A player runs one time around the edge of the court. How far does the player run?

A professional basketball court is in the shape of a rectangle. It is 50 feet wide-example-1
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The answer is 288 feet
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All you have to do is find the perimeter, if it has two 50ft sides and two 94ft sides then all you have to do is multiply both numbers by two then add them up like so:
50 x 2 + 90 x 2 = ?
Now what does it equal?
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