Thursday, April 23, 2009

Area of a Venue

An event management company is planning to host an event and need to know how many tickets to print, based on the size of the venue. The venue is 300 metres long, and is measured in even intervals to find the distances across it, and the following measurements were recorded in order:

58 m, 75 m, 94 m, 102 m, 85 m, 92 m, 98 m, 74 m, 60 m, 70 m and 74 m.

How large is surface area of the venue?

4 comments:

  1. The question above stated only that the width of each strip is measured in even intervals how do we find w


    then i'll use...
    Appox. Area = (width of strip)[(1/2)(sum of first and last oridnate) + (sum of other ordinates)].

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  2. You know the overall length of the venue, and that each measurement is taken in even intervals from one end to the next, right?

    Given the number of measurements taken, are you able to find what the width is?

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  3. Area = (width of the strip)(1/2)(sum of the first and last ordinate)+(sum of other ordinates)

    Miss
    i agree with weezy

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