Question

Lynette is covering shapes with wrapping paper to make a design for the school carnival how much paper and square feet will Lynette need to cover the figure shown below

Answer 1

The area of paper needed is;

$7\frac{1}{2}ft^2$

Here, we want to get the square feet of paper needed

What we have to do here is to get the area of the parallelogarm

Mathematically, that would be the product of the base of the parallelogram and its height

We have the base as 3 3/4 ft which is same 15/4 ft and the height as 2 ft

Thus, we have the area calculated as follows;

$\frac{15}{4}\times\text{ 2 = }\frac{30}{4}\text{ = 7}\frac{1}{2}ft^2$