perimeter and area

we've been learning about perimeter and area these past weeks. lets start with perimeter, perimeter is the length of all the sides of a shape for example. if you had a rectangle that was 8 cm long vertically and 4 cm horizontally. to get the answer you add up all the sides. so the answer to that example is 24 cm. Now area. area is the length times the width so if we use that same answer the answer would be 32cm squared