SOLUTION: a square piece of paper is folded in half. The perimeter of the resulting rectangle is 24cm. Find the area of the origional paper
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Question 279890: a square piece of paper is folded in half. The perimeter of the resulting rectangle is 24cm. Find the area of the origional paper
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the side of square be x
When the paper is folded the resultant rectangle will have length same as side of the square and the width 1/2 of the square side
Perimeter of rectangle = x+x+x/2+x/2 = 3x
3x=24
x=8
The area of originalaper is 8*8 = 64 square cm
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