Real Life Area of Composite Figures
Area FormulasRefer to the STAAR Reference Sheet!!!! It is given to you for a reason!!! Rectangle Triangle Trapezoid Circle Perimeter wood to frame a window amount of fencing needed for a backyard border for a bulletin board Area space in a garden grass in the backyard glass in the window The area of a parallelogram is 24 square inches. Find the base if the height is 3 inches. Base = 8 inches A square has an area of 144 square feet. What is the length of each side? Length = 12 feet Margo is painting a toy box for her dogs. The front of the toy box is a trapezoid with the bottom being 14 inches long and the top being 18 inches long. If the height of the toy box is 12 inches, how many square inches is the front side of the toy box? The front of the toy box is 192 square inches. Congratulations! You are the proud owner of a beautiful new home! Below is a blueprint of your house. Use the blueprint to help you make some important calculations! **HINT** Draw each figure on a sheet of paper paper page. For example, this would be the figure for Part A. Part A:You are planning on putting new carpet into the master bedroom and the master closet. The carpet costs $1.34 per square foot. Determine how much you will need to pay for the carpet. Total Area of the Rooms: 194square feetTotal Cost of the Carpet: $259.96 Part B:You are going to turn Bedroom 2 into your new office space. You would like to put new hardwood floors down. The cost of hardwood is $3.05 per square foot. Calculate the total cost of the hardwood (Bedroom 2 ONLY - NOT the closet). Total Area of the Bedroom: 140square feetTotal Cost of the Hardwood: $427 Part C:The floors in the family room and entry need to be professionally cleaned. The cost of the cleaning company is $0.52 per square foot. Calculate the total cost to clean the floors. Total Area of the Rooms: 261square feetTotal Cost of Cleaning: $135.72 You have decided to paint one of the walls in the dining room blue. The shape of the wall is shown below. One gallon of paint covers 50 square feet. The wall will need 2 coats of paint. How many gallons of paint would you need to paint the wall? Total Area of the Wall: 100square feetGallons of Paint Needed: 4 gallons Find the area of the shaded region. Use 3.14 for pi. (Round to the hundredths place.)The area of the SHADED region is 26.13 square yards. Find the area of the shaded region. Use 3.14 for pi. (Round to the tenths place)The area of the whole triangle is 152 square yards.The area of the whole circle is 78.5 square yards.The area of the SHADED region is 73.5 square yards.