Homework Help: geometry

Posted by steve on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 1:59pm.

The perimeter of parallelogram CDEF is 54 centimeters. Find the length of segment FC if segment DE is 5 centimeters longer than segment EF. (Hint: Sketch and label a diagram first.)

a)14
b)44
c)16
d)11

geometry - Reiny, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 2:08pm
let the width be x
then the length is x+5

solve....

2x + 2(x+5) = 54
geometry - steve, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 2:12pm
so? the answer is?

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