{"id":20955,"date":"2026-05-25T16:49:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/rectangle-perimeter-calculation-9\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:49:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:49:51","slug":"rectangle-perimeter-calculation-9","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/rectangle-perimeter-calculation-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Rectangle Perimeter Calculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A classroom notice board is 20 cm long and 13 cm wide. What is its perimeter?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>260 cm<\/li>\n<li>66 cm<\/li>\n<li>53 cm<\/li>\n<li>33 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-20955","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 (20 + 13) = 66 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 66 cm.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"260 cm"},{"right":"yes","answer":"66 cm"},{"right":"no","answer":"53 cm"},{"right":"no","answer":"33 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\/20955","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=20955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20955"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20955"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}