Homework Help: 6th G Math

Posted by Jon on Saturday, April 7, 2012 at 11:26pm.

The school pep squad members wanted to make rectangular spirit flags with bases of 7 inches and heights of 8 inches. Each flag is divided evenly into a red triangle and a white triangle.

How much fabric would be needed to make the white triangle for 100 spirit flags?

6th G Math - Tony, Sunday, April 8, 2012 at 12:23am
Find the area of one rectangle flag.

7in x 8in = ?

Divide the area by 2 (because half of the flag is white, the other half is red)

That is the area of one white triangle.

You need 100 flags so multiply that number by 100.

_____ in^2 of fabric

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