Perimeter: calculating the perimeter of a triangle

To calculate the perimeter of a triangle, all you have to do is add its three sides. If you have all the necessary information, you can solve such a problem in a matter of seconds, for example:

Formula for the perimeter of a triangle:

P = Side 1 + Side 2 + Side 3.

A - The formula of the perimeter of a triangle

If you give us a triangle whose sides have the following measurements:

AB=5 AB = 5

BC=8 BC = 8

CA=6 CA = 6

In this case, the perimeter of the triangle, which is the sum of the 3 3 sides will be equal to. 19 19

Suggested Topics to Practice in Advance

  1. Area
  2. The sides or edges of a triangle
  3. Triangle Height
  4. The Sum of the Interior Angles of a Triangle
  5. Exterior angles of a triangle
  6. Types of Triangles
  7. Obtuse Triangle
  8. Equilateral triangle
  9. Identification of an Isosceles Triangle
  10. Scalene triangle
  11. Acute triangle
  12. Isosceles triangle
  13. The Area of a Triangle
  14. Area of a right triangle
  15. Area of Isosceles Triangles
  16. Area of a Scalene Triangle
  17. Area of Equilateral Triangles

Practice Perimeter of a Triangle

Examples with solutions for Perimeter of a Triangle

Exercise #1

Look at the triangle below:

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What is the perimeter of the triangle?

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Step-by-Step Solution

The perimeter of the triangle is equal to the sum of all sides together, therefore:

6+8+10=14+10=24 6+8+10=14+10=24

Answer

24

Exercise #2

Given the triangle:

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What is its perimeter?

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Step-by-Step Solution

The perimeter of a triangle is equal to the sum of all its sides together:

11+7+13=11+20=31 11+7+13=11+20=31

Answer

31

Exercise #3

Given an equilateral triangle:

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What is its perimeter?

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Step-by-Step Solution

Since the triangle is equilateral, that is, all sides are equal to each other.

The perimeter of the triangle is equal to the sum of all sides together, the perimeter of the triangle in the drawing is equal to:

5+5+5=15 5+5+5=15

Answer

15

Exercise #4

Below is an equilateral triangle:

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If the perimeter of the triangle is 33 cm, then what is the value of X?

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Step-by-Step Solution

We know that in an equilateral triangle all sides are equal.

Therefore, if we know that one side is equal to X, then all sides are equal to X.

We know that the perimeter of the triangle is 33.

The perimeter of the triangle is equal to the sum of the sides together.

We replace the data:

x+x+x=33 x+x+x=33

3x=33 3x=33

We divide the two sections by 3:

3x3=333 \frac{3x}{3}=\frac{33}{3}

x=11 x=11

Answer

11

Exercise #5

Look at the isosceles triangle below:

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What is its perimeter?

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Step-by-Step Solution

Since we are referring to an isosceles triangle, the two legs are equal to each other.

In the drawing, they give us the base which is equal to 4 and one side is equal to 6, therefore the other side is also equal to 6.

The perimeter of the triangle is equal to the sum of the sides and therefore:

6+6+4=12+4=16 6+6+4=12+4=16

Answer

16

Exercise #6

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What is the perimeter of the given isosceles triangle?

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Step-by-Step Solution

Due to the fact that the the triangle is isosceles, its two legs are equal to one another.

Therefore, the base is 7 and the other two sides are 12.

The perimeter of a triangle is equal to the sum of all the sides together:

12+12+7=24+7=31 12+12+7=24+7=31

Answer

31

Exercise #7

Look at the isosceles triangle below:

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The perimeter of the triangle is 50.

What is the value of X?

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Step-by-Step Solution

Since we know the triangle is isosceles, the other side will also be equal to X

Now we can replace the data to calculate X.

The perimeter of the triangle is equal to:

x+x+5.6=50 x+x+5.6=50

2x=505.6 2x=50-5.6

2x=44.4 2x=44.4

We divide both sides by 2:

2x2=44.42 \frac{2x}{2}=\frac{44.4}{2}

x=22.2 x=22.2

Answer

22.2

Exercise #8

Look at the following triangle:

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The perimeter of the triangle is 17.

What is the value of X?

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Step-by-Step Solution

We know that the perimeter of a triangle is equal to the sum of all sides together, so we replace the data:

3x+2x+3.5x=17 3x+2x+3.5x=17

8.5x=17 8.5x=17

Divide the two sections by 8.5:

8.5x8.5=178.5 \frac{8.5x}{8.5}=\frac{17}{8.5}

x=2 x=2

Answer

2

Exercise #9

The triangle ABC has a perimeter measuring 42 cm.

AD = 12

AC = 15

AB = 13

Calculate the area of the triangle.

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Video Solution

Step-by-Step Solution

Given that the perimeter of triangle ABC is 42.

We will use this data to find side CB:

13+15+CB=42 13+15+CB=42

CB+28=42 CB+28=42

CB=4228=14 CB=42-28=14

Now we can calculate the area of triangle ABC:

AD×BC2=12×142=1682=84 \frac{AD\times BC}{2}=\frac{12\times14}{2}=\frac{168}{2}=84

Answer

84 cm²

Exercise #10

Below is the right triangle ABD, which has a perimeter of 36 cm.

AB = 15

AC = 13

DC = 5

CB = 4

Work out the area of the triangle.

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Step-by-Step Solution

According to the data:

BD=4+5=9 BD=4+5=9

Now that we are given the perimeter of triangle ABD we can find the missing side AD:

AD+15+9=36 AD+15+9=36

AD+24=36 AD+24=36

AD=3624=12 AD=36-24=12

Thus we can calculate the area of triangle ABD:

AD×BD2=12×92=1082=54 \frac{AD\times BD}{2}=\frac{12\times9}{2}=\frac{108}{2}=54

Answer

54 cm²

Exercise #11

The perimeter of the triangle ABD shown below is 36 cm.

Given in cm:

AB = 15

AC = 13

DC = 5

CB = 4

Calculate the area of triangle ADC.

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Step-by-Step Solution

Using the given data of the triangle's perimeter we will first find the side AD by calculating the sum of all the sides of the triangle:

AD+9+15=36 AD+9+15=36

AD+24=36 AD+24=36

AD=3624=12 AD=36-24=12

Now that we know that AD is equal to 12, we are able to deduce that AD is also the height from BD since it forms a 90-degree angle.

If AD is the height from BD, it is also the height from DC.

Now we can calculate the area of the triangle ADC:

AD×DC2 \frac{AD\times DC}{2}

12×52=602=30 \frac{12\times5}{2}=\frac{60}{2}=30

Answer

30 cm²

Exercise #12

Look at the triangle in the figure.

What is its perimeter?

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Step-by-Step Solution

In order to find the perimeter of a triangle, we first need to find all of its sides.

Two sides have already been given leaving only one remaining side to find.

We can use the Pythagorean Theorem.
AB2+BC2=AC2 AB^2+BC^2=AC^2
We insert all of the known data:

AC2=72+32 AC^2=7^2+3^2
AC2=49+9=58 AC^2=49+9=58
We extract the square root:

AC=58 AC=\sqrt{58}
Now that we have all of the sides, we can add them up and thus find the perimeter:
58+7+3=58+10 \sqrt{58}+7+3=\sqrt{58}+10

Answer

10+58 10+\sqrt{58} cm

Exercise #13

Look at the triangle in the figure.

What is the length of the hypotenuse given that its perimeter is 12+45 12+4\sqrt{5} cm?

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Step-by-Step Solution

We calculate the perimeter of the triangle:

12+45=4+AC+BC 12+4\sqrt{5}=4+AC+BC

As we want to find the hypotenuse (BC), we isolate it:

12+454AC=BC 12+4\sqrt{5}-4-AC=BC

BC=8+45AC BC=8+4\sqrt{5}-AC

Then calculate AC using the Pythagorean theorem:

AB2+AC2=BC2 AB^2+AC^2=BC^2

42+AC2=(8+45AC)2 4^2+AC^2=(8+4\sqrt{5}-AC)^2

16+AC2=(8+45)22×AC(8+45)+AC2 16+AC^2=(8+4\sqrt{5})^2-2\times AC(8+4\sqrt{5})+AC^2

We then simplify the two:AC2 AC^2

16=82+2×8×45+(45)22×8×AC2AC45 16=8^2+2\times8\times4\sqrt{5}+(4\sqrt{5})^2-2\times8\times AC-2AC4\sqrt{5}

16=64+645+16×516AC85AC 16=64+64\sqrt{5}+16\times5-16AC-8\sqrt{5}AC

16AC+85AC=64+645+16×516 16AC+8\sqrt{5}AC=64+64\sqrt{5}+16\times5-16

AC(16+85)=128+645 AC(16+8\sqrt{5})=128+64\sqrt{5}

AC=128+64516+85=8(16+85)16+85 AC=\frac{128+64\sqrt{5}}{16+8\sqrt{5}}=\frac{8(16+8\sqrt{5})}{16+8\sqrt{5}}

We simplify to obtain:

AC=8 AC=8

Now we can replace AC with the value we found for BC:

BC=8+45AC BC=8+4\sqrt{5}-AC

BC=8+458=45 BC=8+4\sqrt{5}-8=4\sqrt{5}

Answer

45 4\sqrt{5} cm

Exercise #14

Find the perimeter of the triangle ABC

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Video Solution

Answer

29

Exercise #15

Find the perimeter of the triangle ABC

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Video Solution

Answer

12

Topics learned in later sections

  1. Perimeter
  2. Triangle