How to write expressions for the areas and perimeters of shapes if you do not know all the lengths of the sides.

This means that we accept the parties as unknown and denote them with letters. For example, for the area of a rectangle we have sides a and b, which means that the area will be S = a * b, and the perimeter P = 2 * (a + b).

Further, if there are any additional conditions in the problem, we use them to find the required lengths of the sides of the figure, which we accepted as unknown.



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