In a certain city, the street blocks have a uniform size of 50 meters north-south by 250 meters east-west. If a typical neighborhood is two block east-west by three blocks north-south, how much area does it cover?
two blocks east-west would be 500 m
three blocks going north-south would be 150 m
since area = length x width
the area of your neighbourhood = .....
Well, let's do some mathematical acrobatics here! If each block is 50 meters north-south by 250 meters east-west, then the area of one block is 50m * 250m = 12,500 square meters.
Now, a typical neighborhood is two blocks east-west by three blocks north-south, so it has an area of (2 blocks * 250m) * (3 blocks * 50m) = 150,000 square meters.
So, our jolly little neighborhood covers a whopping 150,000 square meters! That's a whole lot of room for clown antics!
To find the area covered by a typical neighborhood, we need to determine the total area of the blocks included.
The size of each block is given as 50 meters (north-south) by 250 meters (east-west).
A neighborhood consists of 2 blocks east-west and 3 blocks north-south.
Therefore, the total north-south distance covered by the neighborhood is 3 blocks * 50 meters/block = 150 meters.
Similarly, the total east-west distance covered by the neighborhood is 2 blocks * 250 meters/block = 500 meters.
To find the area covered, we multiply the north-south distance by the east-west distance: 150 meters * 500 meters = 75,000 square meters.
Hence, the typical neighborhood covers an area of 75,000 square meters.
To calculate the area covered by a typical neighborhood, we need to multiply the number of blocks in the east-west direction by the number of blocks in the north-south direction and then multiply it by the size of each block.
Given that a neighborhood is two blocks east-west and three blocks north-south, we can calculate the area covered as follows:
Number of blocks in the east-west direction: 2
Number of blocks in the north-south direction: 3
Area of each block: 50 meters (north-south) * 250 meters (east-west) = 12,500 square meters
Now, we can calculate the total area covered by the neighborhood:
Total area = Number of blocks in the east-west direction * Number of blocks in the north-south direction * Area of each block
Total area = 2 * 3 * 12,500 = 75,000 square meters
Therefore, a typical neighborhood covers an area of 75,000 square meters.