Question

The area of a rectangle is 36 square centimeters. Give all possible whole-number dimensions of the rectangle. Which rectangle has the greatest perimeter?​

Answer 1

Basically all the factors you can think of can act as dimensions

Answer 2

ALL POSSIBLE DIMENSIONS OF THE RECTANGLE (whole numbers):

1 cm and 36 cm (Perimeter = 74 cm)

2 cm and 18 cm (Perimeter = 40 cm)

3 cm and 12 cm (Perimeter = 30 )

4 cm and 9 cm (Perimeter = 26)

6 cm and 6 cm Perimeter= 24 (squares are also considered rectangles, this is a square because of equal sides)

The rectangle with the greatest perimeter consists of the dimensions 1 cm and 36 cm.

Step-by-step explanation:

I listed all possible factors of 36: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36

And have come up with 5 possible dimensions with numbers from the listed factors above (when the dimensions of each rectangle are multiplied the result will be 36/the area)

Multiplication is used because the area of a rectangle is length x width

And I used the formula for perimeter:

2 (l + w)

And found the greatest perimeter (74 cm) that belongs to the rectangle with the dimensions 36 cm and 1 cm.