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What is the least perimeter of a rectangle with an area of 32 square feet

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The least perimeter occurs when rectangle is square.

So you can start by taking square root of area; √32

So each side is √32 and there are 4 sides

Hence least perimeter is 4√32 = 16√2 ≈ 22.627.
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