The student is correct. Due to the meaning of perimeter which is all sides added up to make a number total, it is possible for a square and a rectangle to have the same perimeter if the numbers add up.
The answer is for this question is 4/5
In 4 days your family drive 5/7 of a trip. Your rate of travel is the same throughout the trip. The total trip is 1250 miles. How many more days until you reach your destination?
Find the amount traveled in one day by dividing
(5/7)/4 = 5/28 of the trip
How many days would it take to add up to 1
1/(5/28) = 5.6 days total
since we already traveled for 4 days, we have 1.6 more days to go
You would have to find the height.
To do this, you cut the triangle from the upper vertex to the base to create two new triangles.
Then you use the Law of Cosines. You could use the google calculator for this by searching “law of cosines calculator” and inputting the values, but in case of a test, the formula is a^2 = b^2 + c^2 - 2bc cosA
If you could provide an example of a triangle, I will gladly help you with the steps! Hope this helped!
