A rectangle is 5 cm long and 3 cm wide. What is its area?
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Practise IGCSE 0580 questions in the style of recent Extended past papers, organised by syllabus subtopic. Each set comes with an examiner-style mark scheme and a downloadable worksheet.
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These Area and perimeter Topical Past Paper Questions are written in the style of recent Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics 0580 Extended papers and grouped by the Mensuration (E5.2) section of the 2025–2027 syllabus. Use them to revise the exact skills examiners test in this part of the course.
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