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  2. Equable shape - Wikipedia

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    An area cannot be equal to a length except relative to a particular unit of measurement. For example, if shape has an area of 5 square yards and a perimeter of 5 yards, then it has an area of 45 square feet (4.2 m 2) and a perimeter of 15 feet (since 3 feet = 1 yard and hence 9 square feet = 1 square yard).

  3. Trapezoid - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a trapezoid (/ ˈ t r æ p ə z ɔɪ d /) in North American English, or trapezium (/ t r ə ˈ p iː z i ə m /) in British English, [1] [2] is a quadrilateral that has at least one pair of parallel sides. [3] The parallel sides are called the bases of the trapezoid.

  4. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Mathematics/2010 January 11

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    What is the formular to find the perimeter of a trapezium —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.170.37.10 03:31, 11 January 2010 (UTC) What information do you know? Often you know at least two of the four side lengths, and you can usually find the others by using the Pythagorean theorem .

  5. Egyptian geometry - Wikipedia

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    This is solved by using the approximation that circular field of diameter 9 has the same area as a square of side 8. Problem 52 finds the area of a trapezium with (apparently) equally slanting sides. The lengths of the parallel sides and the distance between them being the given numbers. [11] Hemisphere: Problem 10 of the MMP computes the area ...

  6. Isosceles trapezoid - Wikipedia

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    The area of an isosceles (or any) trapezoid is equal to the average of the lengths of the base and top (the parallel sides) times the height. In the adjacent diagram, if we write AD = a , and BC = b , and the height h is the length of a line segment between AD and BC that is perpendicular to them, then the area K is

  7. Perimeter - Wikipedia

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    For example, the perimeter of a rectangle of width 0.001 and length 1000 is slightly above 2000, while the perimeter of a rectangle of width 0.5 and length 2 is 5. Both areas are equal to 1. Proclus (5th century) reported that Greek peasants "fairly" parted fields relying on their perimeters. [ 2 ]

  8. Curve of constant width - Wikipedia

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    By Barbier's theorem, the body's perimeter is exactly π times its width, but its area depends on its shape, with the Reuleaux triangle having the smallest possible area for its width and the circle the largest. Every superset of a body of constant width includes pairs of points that are farther apart than the width, and every curve of constant ...

  9. List of centroids - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of centroids of various two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects. The centroid of an object in -dimensional space is the intersection of all hyperplanes that divide into two parts of equal moment about the hyperplane.