<p>summerinthecity, i was confused about the wording on that question too! I ended up going with 8x13...idk which is right.</p>
<p>michelle...i as well had no clue whatsoever how to do that trapezoid one...you know with leg 5 and leg 8...it angered me lol</p>
<p>The area of the trapezoid was 65. This I am 100% sure.</p>
<p>one of the reading questions about "Diane"
was she a neighbor of someone??
that's what I said, but I'm not sure..
and for the "smirk" question.. what did you guys put??
I think it was either amusement or prfound something.. but which one was it?</p>
<p>I don't even remember what the science questions were..
the last one.. fighting scientists.. it was harder that I thought..</p>
<p>yay! thats what i said. i think the area one asked about the whole fenced area but i dunno. what was the other question about the garden? we already talked about two.</p>
<p>how many rows she could put in. i said 8</p>
<p>I thought diane was the mom because it said like that the grandma and diane moved in or something and diane was embarressed with the color of the house... and it seemed like the only neighbor in the passage was that one other main lady</p>
<p>yeah same. but theres one more q</p>
<p>i think the question said "what is the area of the rectangular plot?" And the original description said "blah blah blah has 10x15 rectangular plot..." so i think the answer is 150. anyway, the wording was terrible on that question.</p>
<p>oh yeah. something about the perimeter minus a walkway.</p>
<p>One the trapezoid area, you had to divide the trapezoid into a triangle and rectangle. The triangle had a hypotenuse of 8 and a leg of 5. Using simple pythagorean theorem, you found the second leg to be rt39.</p>
<p>The perimete was 39, so you now have</p>
<p>8+5+rt39+2x(the two sides of the rectangle)=39.</p>
<p>Solve for x and find the area of the rectangle and add to area of the triangle. This = 65.</p>
<p>the trapizoid is 65, 39 is perimeter given two sides 5 and 8, remaining is 26. Area of a trap= average of both bases* height. 26= sum of the two bases so the average is 13*5(height)= 65</p>
<p>It looks like all the ones that i guessed are wrong..
now I cannot even "predict" what I'm going get</p>
<p>I got 65 as well.</p>
<p>michelle-</p>
<p>it asked the minimum amount of fencing needed if there was a 3 foot opening on one side so ppl could walk in</p>
<p>did you get 47? i think thats what i got.</p>
<p>Oh yeah. The answer was 47 right?</p>
<p>It seemed too simple that you would just find the perimeter and subtract 3 but I couldn't think of any trick I was missing so I just put 47. Same for the area problem--I couldn't think that they would actually have a problem as simple as just multiplying 15 by 10 but I guess ya never know.</p>
<p>yep it was 47</p>
<p>yea i got 47</p>
<p>i also got 65</p>