The local church is moving to a new, bigger building, it is going to be shaped like a rectangle. The length of it is 250 miles (402 km) and the width is 345 miles (555 kilometers) What is the perimeter and area of the new church? The length and width are the same on both sides.
Did you get your units mixed up?? A church that is 250 MILES in length and 345 MILES in width??
UGHHHHHH. I MEANT 200 kilometers and 100 kilometers. Someone change my username to DumbestPersonOf2017!
You are definitely not the first person to make a careless mistake PB, we all do it!!!
But 200 kilometers by 100 kilometers is still pretty humongous...that is about 124 miles by 62 miles.
I can still answer the question anyway, though.
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perimeter = length + length + width + width
perimeter = 200 + 200 + 100 + 100
perimeter = 600 kilometers
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area = length × width
area = 200 × 100
area = 20,000 square kilometers
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You can just replace the word "kilometers" with whatever units you have.