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What is the perimeter?
Perimeter is a term applied to the boundary of a shape or object. It is the distance around the outside of it. A link is provided below.
How do you find the distance around a figure?
To find the distance around a figure, you calculate the perimeter. The perimeter is the total distance around the outside of a shape or figure. To find the perimeter of a rectangle or square, you add up all the sides. For a circle, you can find the perimeter by multiplying the diameter by π (pi).
Where did perimeter come from and when?
Perimeter didn't 'come from' anywhere. The concept of 'how long is the bottom of the outside of this thing' has always existed. Perimeter is just the name for 'how long is the bottom of the outside of this thing'. As an example, the perimeter of any one of the pyramids has always been the same.About 1600, the English word 'perimeter' was first used to describe 'the distance around the outside of stuff'But, that distance was the same long before that!
If the radius of a circle is 18 inches what is the diameter?
36 inches. The radius is the distance from the centre to the outside or circumference and trhe diameter is the distance across passing through the centre. Therfore the diameter is twice the distance of the radius.
The distance around geometric figure?
perimeter
