A catalog has a scale drawing of a floating dock. The dock is a regular octagon attached to a rectangular walkway. The scale dra
wing has a scale of 1 inch 4 feet. What is the actual length of a side of the octagon?
1 answer:
Answer: 5 feet.
Step-by-step explanation:
Remember that the lenghts of the sides of a regular octagon are equal.
You can observe in the figure that the lenght of a side of the regular octagon is 1.25 inches.
Let be "s" the actual length of a side of the regular octagon.
Knowing that the scale drawing has a scale of 1 inch 4 feet, you can find the actual lenght of a side of this regular octagon with:
Therefore, the actual length of a side of the octagon is 5 feet.
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Step-by-step explanation:
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The volume of the box is
The length and the Width of the card is
L = W = Z
From the question we are told that 7 in squares were cut from each corner
So the length and the width of the box would be
L = W = (Z - 7)
And the height would be H = 7 in
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