Question
A group of students were allotted a quadrilateral patch in the school campus to make a garden. They cleared up the patch and decided to grow medicinal plants. Find the area of the patch, if the dimensions are as given in the figure.
Hint:
Using pythagoras theorem, find the length of side AC.
area of patch ABCD = area of Δ ABC + area of Δ ADC
Find area of area of Δ ADC by heron's formula for finding the area of triangle
The correct answer is: 306 m2
Step1 :- Find the length of side Ac using pythagoras theorem,
In Δ ABC , AC2 = AB2 + BC2
We know that AB = 9 and BC = 40
Substituting the values we get AC2 = 92 + 402 = 81+1600 = 1681 =412
We get AC = 41 m
Step2:- Find the area of Δ ABC,
Here,Δ ABC is a right angle triangle .
Area of right angle triangle = ½ (product of lengths of perpendicular sides)
Area of Δ ABC = ½ (40 × 9)
Area of Δ ABC = 180 m2
Step 3:- Find the area of Δ ADC from heron's formula
Here, side length of triangle are 15,28 and 41 m
Heron's formula for area of triangle with side length
a,b,c are Area =
Where s =
Let a = 28 ;b = 15 ;c = 41
We get s = = 42
Area =
=
We get area of Δ ADC = 126 (m2)
Step 4:- Find the area of the Patch
area of patch ABCD = area of Δ ABC + area of Δ ADC
= 180 m2 + 126 m2
= 306 m2
Therefore area of patch ABCD = 306 m2.
Let a = 28 ;b = 15 ;c = 41
We get area of Δ ADC = 126 (m2)
Step 4:- Find the area of the Patch
area of patch ABCD = area of Δ ABC + area of Δ ADC
Therefore area of patch ABCD = 306 m2.
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The equation above can be used to model the population, in thousands, of a certain city t years after 2000. According to the model, the population is predicted to increase by 0.5% every n months. What is the value of n?
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The equation above can be used to model the population, in thousands, of a certain city t years after 2000. According to the model, the population is predicted to increase by 0.5% every n months. What is the value of n?
Note:
We need to understand what each quantity given in the equation
represents. For example, the population in year 2000 is 2,15,000. After 3 tears, that is, in year 2003, the population becomes thousand which is 216075.