Anahita wants to draw many rectangles that have a perimeter of 20 cm. She draws a few rectanglesbut then stops and begins looking for pairs of numbers with a sum of 10. Why does it make sense forher to find pairs of numbers adding to 10?

Here, note that the perimeter of the rectangle is given by: p=2(l+w) where l is the length and w is…

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Anahita wants to draw many rectangles that have a perimeter of 20 cm. She draws a few rectangles but then stops and begins looking for pairs of numbers with a sum of 10. Why does it make sense for her to find pairs of numbers adding to 10?