SOLUTION: If you have a 10 meter by 10 meter area. How many post would you need to enclose the area if you put the posts 1 meter apart?

Question 943936: If you have a 10 meter by 10 meter area. How many post would you need to enclose the area if you put the posts 1 meter apart?
Answer by macston(5194) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
To put a post every meter around the perimeter of a 10m x 10m square would require 40 posts. The first side requires 1 post at zero + 1 for each meter, the second and third sides require 1 post for each meter(since the first post is already in place from the side before, and the last side 1 less post than the number of meters, since first AND last posts are already in place.
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