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UKMT Junior Mathematical Challenge, 2016

Geometry Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Find the answer United Kingdom

Four copies of the triangle shown are joined together, without gaps or overlaps, to make a parallelogram. What is the largest possible perimeter of the parallelogram?

(A) $46$ cm (B) $52$ cm (C) $58$ cm (D) $62$ cm (E) $76$ cm

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