All sides of quadrilateral ABCD ABCD A, B, C, D are tangent to circle PPP. What is the perimeter of the quadrilateral below?

The answer is below

Step-by-step explanation:

A tangent is a line which touches a circle at one point. The angle between a tangent and a circle is 90°.

The two tangent theorem states that tangent that meet at the same point are equal in length.

Therefore:

CD = c + d

but c = 5.1, hence:

CD = 5.1 + d

12.1 = 5.1 + d

d = 7

AD = a + d; but AD = 12.2, d = 7

12.2 = a + 7

a = 5.2

AB = a + b; but b = 3.3

AB = 5.2 + 3.3 = 8.5

BC = b + c = 3.3 + 5.1 = 8.4

Perimeter of ABCD = AB + BC + CD + AD = 8.5 + 8.4 + 12.1 + 12.2 = 41.2

for this case we must apply distributive property to the following expression:

the distributive property states that:

then, when applying the property we have to multiply the -2 for each term within the parenthesis: