What is distance around a figure called?

Answer 1

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When you are talking about figures such as squares, rectangles, and triangles, you call that its perimeter. If you want the mathematical formula to get perimeter, you would use these:

P= Perimeter, S= Side, b= base, h= height, l= length, w= width

• Square- P= 4s
• Rectangle- P=2b+2h OR P=2l+2w
• Triangle- P= a+b+c

The distance around a circle, you would use circumference. It is really perimeter, but they call it circumference. This is its formula: C= Circumference, pi= 3.14159 etc, R= Radius, D= Diameter

• Circle- C= 2piR OR C= piD