SOLUTION: What figure has a perimeter of 36 with equal sides of 6 inches long?

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Question 383970: What figure has a perimeter of 36 with equal sides of 6 inches long?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you have 'n' sides that are all 's' units long, then the perimeter of that figure is ns


In your case, s = 6 and ns=36. So basically 6n = 36. I'll let you take it from here.

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