Question

A wire was bent into the shape of a rectangle with width 5 and length 7. If this wire is bent into shape of a square, what is the length of a side of the square

Answer 1

6 cm

Explanation:

wire was bent into the shape of a rectangle with width 5 and length 7. If this wire is bent into shape of a square, what is the length of a side of the square

Given that:

Rectangular wire with the following dimension :

Width = 5

Length = 7

To obtain the total length of the wire :

Perimeter of rectangle :

2 (length + Width)

2 (5 + 7)

2(12)

= 24 cm

The length of each side of the square will be :

Number of sides = 4

Length of each side :

24 / 4 = 6 cm