Question
hope's mom baked a cake for hope's birthday. It is in the shape of a rectangle 10 inches long and 6 inches wide. If she starts at one corner and puts a candle every 2 inches, how many candles will fit around the edge of the cake?
Answers
Steve
each long side has 6 candles, counting the corners.
with no corners to worry about, each short side only needs 2 more candles.
Total is thus 6+6 + 2+2 = 16
Or, you can consider the entire perimeter as one long line, of length 32. So, it will need 16 candles to decorate it.
with no corners to worry about, each short side only needs 2 more candles.
Total is thus 6+6 + 2+2 = 16
Or, you can consider the entire perimeter as one long line, of length 32. So, it will need 16 candles to decorate it.