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Finding the Area of a Plane Surface and How to Use it

Surface area (the area of a two-dimensional shape) is generally measured in “square somethings.” You pick the something you like – feet, inches, meters, nanometers, rods – you name it – as long as that something is a unit that measures one-dimensional space. [...]

(Not Just) A Geometry Word Problem

A reader recently sent in this problem:

Help, how do you solve this???

The area of a rectangle is 624cm2. The base is 8 less than 5 times the height. What is the perimeter?

I can not find out how to do it on line. I have a number of similar [...]