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# The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line

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The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line [#permalink]  08 Oct 2018, 12:33
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The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line segment were to be drawn from A to B, it would have a length of $$8 \sqrt{2}$$ units. What is the perimeter of the entire figure in units?

A. 20

B. 32

C. 40

D. 64

E. 80
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Re: The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line [#permalink]  29 Jun 2019, 14:06
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What is the explanation to this question? is the "figure" the whole shaded region or the triangle created with AB as hypothenuse?
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Re: The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line [#permalink]  01 Jul 2019, 04:47
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This becomes a triangle which has the angles in the ratio of $$45:45:90$$ or $$x:x:x\sqrt{2}$$

We do know this because the segment AB is $$8\sqrt{2}$$

which means that the other sides are 8

One side of a square is 4.

We want to know the perimeter of the shaded region which has 10 sides

$$4 \times 10 = 40$$

C is the answer
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Re: The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line [#permalink]  09 Sep 2019, 09:39
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This becomes a triangle which has the angles in the ratio of $$45:45:90$$ or $$x:x:x\sqrt{2}$$

We do know this because the segment AB is $$8\sqrt{2}$$

which means that the other sides are 8

One side of a square is 4.

We want to know the perimeter of the shaded region which has 10 sides

$$4 \times 10 = 40$$

C is the answer

Aren't we supposed to be told that all the squares are equal? By assuming that they are equal, we might be missing a case when they aren't.
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Re: The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line [#permalink]  09 Sep 2019, 10:26
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As square has all the sides equal.

Otherwise must be specified. In this case, we fairly might assume they are equal.

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Re: The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line [#permalink]  09 Sep 2019, 10:27
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As square has all the sides equal.

Otherwise must be specified. In this case, we fairly might assume they are equal.

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The problem says "The figure above is made up of 4 squares." . We know that each of those four figures is a square, but we are not told that they are all equal.
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Re: The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line [#permalink]  09 Sep 2019, 10:34
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Each square is equal to another.

See also my explanation above https://greprepclub.com/forum/the-figur ... tml#p35374

You could infer from it
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Re: The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line [#permalink]  12 Sep 2019, 21:29
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#GRE practicequestion The figure above is made up of 4 squares.jpg

The figure above is made up of 4 squares. If a straight line segment were to be drawn from A to B, it would have a length of $$8 \sqrt{2}$$ units. What is the perimeter of the entire figure in units?

A. 20

B. 32

C. 40

D. 64

E. 80

across one square the distance would be $$4\sqrt{2}$$

$$4\sqrt{2} = \sqrt{2a^2}$$
16*2 = 32 = 2a^2
16 = a^2
a = 4

Then count edges. 10

4*10 = 40

Perhaps a faster way of doing the math would be putting 4 under the radical to get \sqrt{32} and recognizing that 16*2 so the length must be 4 for each side.
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