Please show your work
The lake is obviously an imperfect perimeter, I am just wanting to know the approx. length of the shoreline to know the length of the trail that goes around the lake.
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/trails/ashland.gif
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157 acres is 4047 x 157 sq meters = 635,379 sq m.
Perimeter would be approximately 800 x 4 = 3200 meters
roger
acre is area. perimeter is length.
it depends on the shape of the acre.
is it a round 157 acre plot or is it square...?
Skookum
If its a rectangle, let
P = perimeter
L = length
W = width
P = 2(L + W)
But you have three unknowns. That's a big problem. You can only estimate L and W and wing it.
adaviel
Infinitely long - shorelines are fractals, which have an ever-increasing length the closer you look at them.
For the path around your particular lake, find some drawing program that will measure the length of a polygon, and trace around it. Xfig on Linux will do that, but I'm too lazy and selfish to do it for you.