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Exploring Rectangles with Equal Perimeters
What is Perimeter?
Perimeter is a boundary around an object.
When finding the perimeter of a rectangle on grid paper, you can count the number of squares that touch the edge of the shape.
Rectangles of different sizes (areas) can have the same perimeter.
What is Area?
The area is the size of the surface.
The smaller the width of a rectangle, the smaller the area is.
The closer the rectangle is to a square, the bigger the area is.
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