Avneet buys 9 square paving slabs, each with a side of ½ m. He lays them in the form of a square.
(i) What is the perimeter of his arrangement?
(ii) Shari does not like his arrangement. She gets him to lay them out like a cross. What is the perimeterof
her arrangement?
(iii) Which has greater perimeter?
(iv) Avneet wonders, if there is a way of getting an even greater perimeter. Can you find a way ofdoing
this? (The paving slabs must meet along complete edges they cannot be broken)
