SOLUTION: The perimeter of a rectangle is 26cm. The rectangle is converted to a square by tripling the width and taking a quater of the length. What is the perimeter of the resulting square?
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Question 936425: The perimeter of a rectangle is 26cm. The rectangle is converted to a square by tripling the width and taking a quater of the length. What is the perimeter of the resulting square? Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
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Substituting into the perimeter equation.
So originally the rectangle was 12x1.
To get the square side, triple the width.
So the perimeter of the square is,
