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Okay, well, the top triangle should be 144.5 sqft. (17x17)/2= 144.5. That's the easy one. I was getting sidetracked with the other shapes.
You can do simple math here because 17x17 tells you that the angle between them is 90 degrees. Just multiply to get the area of a 17x17 square, then divide by 2 to get half do that square.
Last edited by HoneyBadger; 03-17-2016 at 00:48.
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Okay, I figured out exactly where I've been going wrong now. Thanks for playing along everyone.
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I think we're lucky that triangle happened to be a right triangle. I've been getting 144 for that triangle as well.Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
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Everyone? This may as well be the PWT!
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Yep, right triangle is easy. I am still struggling with how to get some of the other shapes... I think you'd have to break them down into smaller triangles to get areas.
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"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
Well, my iPad battery is down to 3%. Good luck. I'll check back in the morning to see how wrong I was...
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"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
How is everyone finding the area of the parallelograms without the height measurement?
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without taking height into it, I come up with 1256 st. ft. All I did was break it down into two boxes, one of 34.4' x 23.5' and the other 33.4' x 13.7'. No need to worry about all the other angles, except for the fact that they are adding height, you can figure that part out.
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Jesus...not even 6am and I need a shot of bourbon already after reading this thread. Math sucks.
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