Subject: Mathematics

Topic: Perimeter, Area and Volume

Grade: V

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 Ramu has a field in
front of his house,
where he grows
vegetables.

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But he observes that
stray dogs enter the
farm and destroy all the
vegetables.

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Therefore, he decides to
fence the farm using a
barbed wire.
To do so he wants to
know the length of
wire he need to
purchase.

How will he find the length of wire needed?

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 To find the length of wire needed, he should first find the
length of the boundary of the farm.

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 20 m
30 m

30 m
20m

Thus, he measures the length of each side of the field.

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 He calculated the length of boundary as follows:

20 m
30 m
I will add
There forethe length
I need of
to buy
all the
100 m ofsides of the
barbed field
wire to
to findthe
fence thefield
length of the
boundary.
30 m
20 m

Length of the boundary of the field = length of all the sides of the field
= 30 m + 20 m + 30 m + 20 m
= 100 m
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 PERIMETER

 The word perimeter is derived from a Greek

word ‘Peri’ means ‘around’ and ‘meter’ means

‘measure’.
 Thus perimeter means measuring the length
around a closed figure.

 Thus, in simple words, the sum the lengths of all

sides of a closed figure is its perimeter.

 The unit of perimeter is same as the unit of

length.

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