SOLUTION: The school board is planning to expand the current schoolyard from rectangle ABCD to rectangle AEFG. If each unit of the figure above represents 1 foot, by how many feet will the p

Question 676169: The school board is planning to expand the current schoolyard from rectangle ABCD to rectangle AEFG. If each unit of the figure above represents 1 foot, by how many feet will the perimeter of the schoolyard have increased after the expansion?

Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if one unit equal to , than:

so, the perimeter of is

the perimeter of will be:
............here increased by units
............here increased by units

the schoolyard have increased after the expansion:

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