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The perimeter of a regular 4 -sided figure is 24 units, and the length of each side is x+1 units.

What is the value of x?

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User Maggon
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Answer:

x = 5

Explanation:

Let's picture this.

The length of each side is (x+1), and since they are all equal to each other, we can assume this shape is a square.

Perimeter is the length of all the sides added up, which means that we can write it out like this:

24= (x+1) + (x+1) + (x+1) + (x+1)

Then, we can add up the variables that are the same, which means our equation turns into:

24 = 4x + 4

Then, we subtract 4 from both sides:

20 = 4x

Finally, to get x, we divide by 4 on both sides.

x = 5

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