SOLUTION: How do you find a perimeter of a polygon when you don't know the measurements of the sides?

Question 1046913: How do you find a perimeter of a polygon when you don't know the measurements of the sides?
Found 2 solutions by addingup, ikleyn:
Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You have to know something. For example:
- How many sides?
- What's the area
- What's the perimeter?
- What are the angles?
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Look up the problem and upload ALL the information you have
Answer by ikleyn(52776) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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For example, if an "unknown" polygon is similar to another, "known" polygon and the ratio of their corresponding sides (the similarity coefficient) is known,
then you can determine the perimeter of the unknown polygon, if you know the perimeter of the "known" polygon.

Imagine the polygon on the Earth surface and its image on the map.

Imagine the state Colorado and it image on the map.

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