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Pre-requisites:

Learning goals:

  • Learn to use `input`.
  • Learn how to use arithmetic operators (`+`, `-`, `*`, `/`, `//`, `%`).

Task:

Write a program that asks for the length and width of a rectangle and outputs the area and the perimeter. The length and width should be given in feet.

You will write this in a script called `rectangle.py`, which should ask for the length and width, calculate the area and perimeter, and then prints them to the screen.

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Example output:

-!- CODE language-text -!-Enter length in feet: 5
Enter width in feet: 4
Area = 20 square feet
Perimeter = 18 feet

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