Okay. fist off don't think of them as 5 units each, but 1. so if you were to put it on graphing paper and box squares each time. you would be able to get 8 in for both sides to make a square. Area then would be 1600ft squared because 8 ×5 is 40 and 40×40 is 1600. then you calculate how many squares you used. 8×8=64. and 80-64=16 so 16 pieces are left over. then 9×9 (increasing the square) is 81. so 17 pieces to increase it.
There are 12 such shapes. One can start with two squares, adding squares around the edge and rejecting shapes that have been previously seen. Repeating until you have 5 squares results in 12 distinct shapes.
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2 shapes are possible with 3 squares: L, I
5 shapes are possible with 4 squares: L, I, N, T, O
Answer:
1.2 cups
Step-by-step explanation:
6 cups / 5 batches = 1.2 cups/batch
5) 1.1802 x 10^6
6) 0.00016
7) 4.3 x 10^-3
8) 2,835,000