{"id":21098,"date":"2026-05-25T16:52:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/rectangle-perimeter-calculation-16\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:05","slug":"rectangle-perimeter-calculation-16","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/rectangle-perimeter-calculation-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Rectangle Perimeter Calculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A classroom notice board is 31 mm long and 12 mm wide. What is its perimeter?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>74 mm<\/li>\n<li>86 mm<\/li>\n<li>372 mm<\/li>\n<li>43 mm<\/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-21098","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 (31 + 12) = 86 mm. 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 86 mm.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"74 mm"},{"right":"yes","answer":"86 mm"},{"right":"no","answer":"372 mm"},{"right":"no","answer":"43 mm"}],"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\/21098","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=21098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=21098"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=21098"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=21098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}