The sum of their age is "s" years? Please fix the typo. Then I might be able to help :D
Answer:
80 square feet
Step-by-step explanation:
You can split it into a rectangle and a triangle. The area of the rectangle would be 2 * 16 = 32 square feet.
Next, you need to find the height of the triangle. To do this, you can split the triangle into two right triangles and use the pythagorean theorem to find the height. The dimensions of one of the right triangle is 8 for one of the legs and 10 for the hypotenuse. Using the pythagorean theorem, 8^2 + b^2 = 10^2, which is 64 + b^2 = 100, so b^2 = 36 and b = 6. This means that the height is 6. Now, you find the area of the triangle and you get 16 * 6 / 2 = 48.
Adding the area of the rectangle and the triangle: 32 + 48 = 80
Not sure why that's not an answer choice, I'm fairly confident it's right.
Seems to be a typo:
If you meant to say just "an article" then it would be 1/3 of the article per minute.
If it is supposed to say "half of an article" he would have read 1/6 of the article per minute. Hope this helps!
