Question

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The perimeter of a parallelogram is 96cm find its longer side if the shorter side is 18cm

Answer 1

The perimeter of a parallelogram is the sum of all its sides. In this case, we are given that the perimeter is 96 cm. We are also given that the shorter side is 18 cm.

Let the longer side of the parallelogram be x cm.

Since a parallelogram has two pairs of equal sides, we know that the total length of the longer sides is 2x cm.

Therefore, the perimeter can be represented as: 18 cm + 18 cm + x cm + x cm = 96 cm

Simplifying this equation we get: 2(18 cm) + 2x = 96 cm

36 cm + 2x = 96 cm

2x = 60 cm

x = 30 cm

Therefore, the longer side of the parallelogram is 30 cm.