You work for a pet trainer who has asked you to create a rectangular pen for dog training purposes. you will use chicken coop wire to construct the sides of the pan. The pen is supposed to be 42.6 feet long and 28.5 feet wide. how many feet of chicken coop wire are needed to form the pen?

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Aditya Barron

Mathematics

7 February, 17:47

You work for a pet trainer who has asked you to create a rectangular pen for dog training purposes. you will use chicken coop wire to construct the sides of the pan. The pen is supposed to be 42.6 feet long and 28.5 feet wide. how many feet of chicken coop wire are needed to form the pen?

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Jaylah Deleon · Answer 1

Add 42.6 and 28.5 to get 71.1 feet of chicken coop wire

Bryson · Answer 2

142.2 feet.

There's four sides to a rectangular pen, so multiple the length (42.6) by 2, and multiply the width (28.5) by 2 and then add them together.