SOLUTION: A square of perimeter 48 cm is cut into 2 pieces to make a rectangle. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?

Question 955890: A square of perimeter 48 cm is cut into 2 pieces to make a rectangle. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, side length of the square.

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Forming the two equal sized and shaped rectangles, perimeter will be for one rectangle, . You can evaluate this because x is no mystery.

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Answer by MathTherapy(10553) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A square of perimeter 48 cm is cut into 2 pieces to make a rectangle. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?

If the 2 rectangles are joined to make one rectangle, then perimeter of resulting rectangle is: cm
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