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so you probably know a lot about area and perimeter but it's worth asking

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will you ever use these concepts outside of the classroom short answer totes long [two students walking away from shmoop school]

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answer totally area and perimeter at concepts that can be found all around us

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whether we realize it or not no not in the creepy way like realizing that there

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are probably rats all around us in a subway area and perimeter are a lot [woman sat on a bench surrounded by rats]

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nicer than scary subway rats remember area is the measurement of the inside of

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a space while the perimeter is the distance around the outside of a space

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so any space is going to have both an area and a perimeter and since the world [image of a large sports stadium]

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is full of all sorts of different spaces area and perimeter come up all over the

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place if you're a bit dizzy from being surrounded by so many instances of [woman looking very confused]

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mathematical concepts feel free to sit down in an area Sorry Sorry feeling

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better awesome let's take a look at a couple of real-world examples of area

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and perimeter say we're trying to make a garden in our backyard and we trace out [a man standing in a back garden]

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a plot where our garden will go if we want to figure out how much soil will

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need for the garden we'll need to figure out the total amount of space in the

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garden which means finding its area on the other hand if we want to surround

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[a white fence surrounding the garden area] the garden with a fence then we'll need to figure out the total distance around

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the garden in other words we've got to find it perimeter if we get these two

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tasks backwards we're going to end up with a garden full of fence post trying

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to buy big piles of dirt similarly area and perimeter can come up if we're

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[a blank yellow painted wall] painting a room if one person decides to paint an entire wall they'll be covering

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the walls area on the other hand if another person decides that they want to

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paint the border of the room they'll be paging the rooms perimeter whether [yellow wall painted pink around the perimeter]

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they're painting areas or perimeters they definitely need to make sure that they

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coordinate what they're doing because even mathematical concepts can't protect

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you from pink getting all over the place [lots of yellow and pink paint splattered on furniture]

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