Bissoy.com
Doctors Medicines MCQs Q&A

A house owner built a fence around his square plot. He used 37 fence poles on each side. How many poles did he need altogether?

A house owner built a fence around his square plot. He used 37 fence poles on each side. How many poles did he need altogether? Correct Answer 144

The logic followed is:

Firstly place 4 poles at 4 corners because every corner is common between 2 sides.

If we place poles at every corner then we need 35 poles on each side to make 37 poles in total on every sides.

(35 × 4) + 4 = 144 poles.

Shortcut Trick

If n is number of poles to be placed on each side then,

Total number of poles = (n - 2) × number of sides + number of corners. 

Related Questions

A house owner built fence around his square plot. He used 37 fence poles on each side of the square. How many poles did he need altogether?
A farmer built a fence around around his square plot. He used 27 fence poles on each side of the square. How many poles did he need altogether?
Amardeep built a fence around his square plot. He used 22 fence poles on each side of the square. How many poles did he need altogether?
A farmer built a fence around his square plot. He used 27 fence poles on each side of the square. How many poles did he need altogether ?
The selling price of plot is directly proportional to the square of area of plot in m2. If the cost price of square shaped plot is Rs. 50000 and the profit percent of a dealer is 25% on selling square shaped plot then find the cost price of rectangular shaped plot if the dealer gains 50% on selling of rectangular plot where the length and breadth of rectangular plot is 30 m and 20 m while the side length of square plot is 20 m.
Nirav's house is 40 m south of Akash's house. Daksh's house is to the east of Akash's house in a straight line at a distance of X m. Prakash's house if to the west of Akash's house in a straight line at a distance of Y m. If the shortest distance between Prakash's house and Nirav's house is 50 m and the shortest distance between Daksh's house and Nirav's house is also 50 m, then what is the distance between Prakash's house and Daksh's house? 
A big rectangular plot of area 4320 m2 is divided into 3 square-shaped smaller plots by fencing parallel to the smaller side of the plot. However some area of land was still left as a square could not be formed. So, 3 more square-shaped plots were formed by fencing parallel to the longer side of the original plot such that no area of the plot was left surplus. What are the dimensions of the original plot ?
Class 5 student Manoj went to get milk from Maya's house which is 500 m away to the north of his house. After coming back to his house, he went to his school which is situated 1 km to the east side of his house. In school he was asked to draw the route from his house to both places. First he marked a point H on the paper as his house. Then he marked M for Maya's house and S for his school. Which of the following is the most appropriate representation. 
Given below are three quantities named 1, 2 and 3. Based on the given information, you have to determine the relationship between the three quantities. You should use the given data and knowledge of Mathematics to choose between the possible answer. Quantity 1: Area of the innermost square. A square is made by joining the midpoints of a square of area 200 sq. m. The outermost square is called Square 1, The square inside it is called Square 2. The next square is made by joining midpoints of square 2 and is called Square 3. This process goes on. Square 5 is the innermost square. Quantity 2: A man starts with a speed of 10 km/hr. He increases his speed by 10 km/hr every hour at the start and drives at the same speed for that hour. If he traveled a total distance of 550 km. Find the time Quantity 3: Height of cylinder Its volume is equal to the volume of a cone whose radius is 14 cm and height is 39.3 cm. The radius of the cylinder is 14 cm
A rectangular plot of land has a fence along three of its four sides. The undenced side and the side opposite the unfenced side have a length that is three times thel length of the other two sides. If the area of the plot is 432 square feet, what is the total length id the fence in feet.