the solid is made up of 2 regular octagons, 8 sides, joined up by 8 rectangles, one on each side towards the other octagonal face.
from the figure, we can see that the apothem is 5 for the octagons, and since each side is 3 cm long, the perimeter of one octagon is 3*8 = 24.
the standing up sides are simply rectangles of 8x3.
if we can just get the area of all those ten figures, and sum them up, that'd be the area of the solid.
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Answer: There is no need to round in this case, but 159% of 980 is 1558.2.
The area is 14 units square. It can be calculated by drawing the vertices.
We have the representation of this problem in the figure below. As we have a 10.3 mile race, then the equation is fulfilled as:
We know that there is <span>a water station that is twice as far from the starting line as from the finish line, then:
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So:
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<span>Finally, the distance of the runner from the finish line is:
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Find the difference then put it over (divide it from) the original.
