In order to accomplish that assignment, you might suspect that a person needs to know something about the figure ... things like maybe what shape it is, and what a few of its measurements are. You would be absolutely correct too. I've looked over your question, and found that you haven't included a single shred of information about the figure. I don't know if it's a square that can fit in the bottom of my coffee cup, or a circle that the Earth can fit through. If I see it walking around on the street tomorrow, I won't even recognize it. Although I do crave to solve the problem and answer your question, I have nothing to get to Square-1 with. I'm sitting here at Square-0 , looking for information to use in my calculations.