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And here's your shmoop de jour...

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What is the perimeter of the object below?

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And here are the potential answers...

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It's all about visualization -- can we see 2 rectangles here?

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We are being asked for the perimeter, which is the distance all the way around...

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We are being asked for the perimeter, which is the distance all the way around…

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...so we are just going to add a bunch of numbers together.

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And we can fill some in... this line is the same length as this line so we can label it

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with a "3"... this line is the same distance as that line so we can put a "5" here...

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So all that's left is figuring out this line. We know the height is 6 because of this

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4 and this 2...

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...so we can subtract this 4 from 6... and we know that this line is also 2.

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Now we just add the numbers -- and we have 4 plus 3 plus 2 plus 5 plus 4 plus 5 plus

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2 plus 3... is 28.

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The answer is B.

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