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You can use the Ruler Postulate or the Distance Formula to determine the lengths of the polygon's sides.
Perimeter: 20 units
Area: 21 square units
To find the perimeter and area of the polygon, let's do each step separately.
To determine the perimeter of the polygon, we must find the sum of the length of the sides. This polygon has four vertices, so it is a quadrilateral. Let's draw it in a coordinate plane.
The sides of this quadrilateral are vertical lines, and the top and bottom are horizontal lines. This means that these lines are perpendicular to each other, and all of the angles in the polygon are right angles. Therefore, the quadrilateral is a rectangle. We can calculate its perimeter using the following formula.
The width is 3 units. We will now find the length in the same way.
With all of this information, we can calculate the perimeter.
The rectangle's perimeter is 20units.
To calculate the area of rectangle, we can use the following formula. A=l w Similarly, in this formula l is the length and w is the width. As we have already calculated all of these, we have enough information to calculate the area.
The rectangle's area is 21square units.