Friday, September 10, 2010

The dimension of the football field are 360ft x 160ft. The radius of the circle is 88 ½ ft. the width of the whole field is 360ft x 203ft. area of the field. Area of circle is 88 ½ ft2 p. That equals 24593.3 ft2. Area for the rectangle is 360 x 203. That equals 73080 ft2. The total area of the field is 97673.3ft 2.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Answer the following questions in your blog. Please copy the images into the blog so that others can follow your work.

Problem 1:

Define area in your own words.

Base x height

Problem 2:

1. What is the area of this irregular figure? (Assume each square is 1 cm x 1 cm)

Don’t forget the label. About 24cm2

2. List your thought processes. (This should include 3-5 sentences.)

I counted all the full squares. Then all of the ones that had most of the squares, last I put two half of the squares together and estimated around 24 squares.

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Problem 3:

What is the area of the figure?

About 10cm2

What label do you think you’d use if this is a small pond? A small lake?

Feet, yards

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Task 4:

Explain why it would be important to know how to find the area of a figure (regular or irregular). This should be 3-5 sentences

regardless if it is regular or irregular it would be nice to know the area. Say it is a pond and you want to add something in the around the pond. You should know how big it is so you can fit it in.