{"id":20886,"date":"2026-05-25T16:49:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/rectangle-perimeter-calculation-6\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:49:48","slug":"rectangle-perimeter-calculation-6","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/rectangle-perimeter-calculation-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Rectangle Perimeter Calculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A classroom notice board is 17 cm long and 10 cm wide. What is its perimeter?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>170 cm<\/li>\n<li>27 cm<\/li>\n<li>54 cm<\/li>\n<li>44 cm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2776,2838],"subject":[2746],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-20886","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-area-and-perimeter","topic-perimeter-of-rectangle","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"Perimeter means the total distance around the boundary. For a rectangle, perimeter = 2 \u00d7 (length + breadth) = 2 \u00d7 (17 + 10) = 54 cm. Notice that both measurements are lengths, but the answer is in square units because we are counting how many unit squares cover the surface. Do not add the sides here; adding sides is used for perimeter, not area. So the correct choice is 54 cm.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"170 cm"},{"right":"no","answer":"27 cm"},{"right":"yes","answer":"54 cm"},{"right":"no","answer":"44 cm"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2746,"title":"Mensuration","slug":"mensuration"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2776,"title":"Area and Perimeter","slug":"area-and-perimeter"},{"id":2838,"title":"Perimeter of Rectangle","slug":"perimeter-of-rectangle"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/20886","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=20886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20886"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20886"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}