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Geometry Difficulty 2.5 Junior Find the answer Canada

In the diagram, each line segment has length $x$ or $y$ . Also, each pair of adjacent sides is perpendicular.If the area of the figure is 252 and $x=2y$ , the perimeter of the figure is

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Solution

Since $x=2y$ , then by drawing dotted lines parallel to the line segments in the given figure, some of which start at midpoints of the current sides, we can divide the figure into 7 squares, each of which is $y$ by $y$ . [[IMAGE0]] Since the area of the given figure is 252, then $7y^2 = 252$ or $y^2 = 36$ . Since $y>0$ , then $y = 6$ . The perimeter of the figure consists of 16 segments of length $y$ . Therefore, the perimeter is $16 \times 6 = 96$ .

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