The easiest way to reason this is to consider how you could connect nine squares together while leaving the largest amount of perimeter exposed. In other words, what's the largest number of faces you can leave exposed on a set of squares that are all connected?
The answer is that if you connect all of the squares in a line, then the two end squares will have three faces exposed and the other seven squares will have two faces exposed. That gives you 2 * 7 * 2cm + 3 * 2 * 2cm = 28cm + 12cm = 40cm. So the maximum perimeter you can get is 40cm.
There are many other ways that you can arrange the squares to give you the same perimeter (eg. a plus sign, a zig-zag, and so on), but none that will give you more.
A 6cm X 2cm shape is a rectangle. Two sides are 6cm, and the other two are 2cm. Therefore, 6+6 + 2+2 = 16cm.
A rectangle with sides of 1cm and 6cm has an area of 6 cm2 and a perimeter of 14 cm. A rectangle with sides of 2cm and 3cm has the same area but its perimeter is 10 cm.
2cm*2cm*2cm = 8cm3
It depends what units you use for each side ! A 1cm x 15cm rectangle has a perimeter of 16cm. So does a 2cm x 4cm one ! If you start using millimetres, there are many more possibilities !
A cube has six square faces. This cubes faces are 2 x 2 ie 4cm2 so overall surface area is 24 cm2.
Your square must have sides of 2cm so perimeter is 8cm.
5cm 2cm
16cm
Assuming the measurements given are the lengths of the sides of a hexagon, the perimeter is 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 11 = 25 cm.
30cm
34 cm
32 cm2
32 cm
12cm
Assuming it is 4cm x 4cm, then there would be 16 1cm x 1cm squares. * * * * * But, there are also 9 2cm x 2cm squares, 4 3cm x 3cm squares and 1 4cm x 4cm square. That makes 30 in all.
Since all four sides are equal in a square, a square with an area of 4cm2 must be 2cm on each side. Therefore, the perimeter is 2cm x 4 = 8cm.
12cm