I don't know any geometrical way to prove this, but I suspect that maximum perimeter will be obtained by allowing only the corners of the squares to touch.
You are given 9 identical squares, each with a side of 1 cm. How do you rearrange these squares in a way to get a shape with the maximum possible perimeter?
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