Homework Help: elementary

Posted by Patti on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 12:24pm.

Using each of the shapes in the box, draw a shape that is worth $6.95. Triangle: $.30 (cents) square: $1.25 rectangle: $1.00
I don't understand. Do they want a pattern of shapes? How would I draw a shape that has more than one of the shapes, triangle, square, and rectangle together???

elementary - PsyDAG, Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 4:45pm
I don't understand either. If you merely wanted to sum the values, I don't see how they can total $6.95. The problem is the $.95. How can you combine the 1.25 and .30 to get something ending in .95? The 1.00 ones will just fill in to get it up to 6.

.30 + .30 + .25 = .85

.30 + .25 + .25 + .25 = 1.05

Are you sure you don't have a typo in your numbers?

Once you find out how many of each shape you need, you probably can combine them any way you want.

I hope this helps. Thanks for asking.
elementary - Patrick, Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 8:02pm
It must be an elementary question because I too have the same question on my homework. I was thinking the shape they are looking for is a trapezoid but still having problems getting to the .95 out of .30, 1.25 and 1.00

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