Homework Help: geometry

Posted by kevina on Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 1:00am.

the perimeter of a parallelogram is 48 inches and the ratio of the lengths of the sides is 3:5. what are the lengths of the sides

geometry - Reiny, Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 6:48am
Let the sides of the parallelogram be 3x and 5x

solve
2(3x + 5x) = 48

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