{"id":20140,"date":"2026-05-21T23:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/a-parallelogram-has-adjacent-sides-10-m-and-4-m-find-its-perimeter\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:43:12","slug":"a-parallelogram-has-adjacent-sides-10-m-and-4-m-find-its-perimeter","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/a-parallelogram-has-adjacent-sides-10-m-and-4-m-find-its-perimeter\/","title":{"rendered":"A parallelogram has adjacent sides 10 m and 4 m. Find its perimeter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parallelogram has adjacent sides 10 m and 4 m. Find its perimeter.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>40 m<\/li>\n<li>14 m<\/li>\n<li>24 m<\/li>\n<li>28 m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2846],"subject":[2746],"education_level":[2494],"class_list":["post-20140","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-perimeter-of-parallelogram","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-6"],"mcq_note":"Opposite sides are equal, so perimeter = 2 \u00d7 (10+4) = 28 m. Choose the correct formula first, substitute the given values carefully, and match the final unit with the type of measurement. A parallelogram has two pairs of equal opposite sides, so adding the adjacent sides and doubling counts all four sides. Perimeter is a boundary length, so the answer stays in metres or centimetres, not square units.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"40 m"},{"right":"no","answer":"14 m"},{"right":"no","answer":"24 m"},{"right":"yes","answer":"28 m"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2746,"title":"Mensuration","slug":"mensuration"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2846,"title":"Perimeter of Parallelogram","slug":"perimeter-of-parallelogram"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/20140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20140"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20140"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}