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PRACTICAL USES Perimeter and Area play a great role in today's world. Perimeter is used in calculating the border of an object such as a yard or flowerbed when a fence or other border is being installed around the edges. Area is used when all the area inside of a perimeter is being covered with something, such as a yard being covered with sod or fertilizer. FORMULAS Polygons As a general rule, the perimeter of a Polygon can always be calculated by adding all the length of the sides together. So, the formula for Triangles is , where , and stand for each side of it. For Quadrilaterals the equation is . For Equilateral Polygon s, , where n is the number of sides and a is the side length. Circles For Circles the equation is : or :
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