In an exhibition , an umbrella is made by stitching 8 triangular pieces of cloth with some message written on two triangular pieces . If each piece measures 26 cm , 26 cm and 12 cm . Find how much cloth is required for each message.
To find out how much cloth is required for each message on the umbrella, we need to calculate the total area of the two triangular pieces that the message is written on.
The formula to find the area of a triangle is: Area = (base * height) / 2
Given that the base and height of each triangular piece are 26 cm and 12 cm respectively, we can calculate the area of each triangle:
Area of each triangle = (26 cm * 12 cm) / 2 = 312 cm²
Since there are two triangular pieces with messages, the total cloth required for the messages would be:
Total cloth required = 2 * 312 cm² = 624 cm²
Therefore, each message on the umbrella would require 624 cm² of cloth.