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OpenStudy (anonymous):

The Sarao family is installing a pond in their backyard with the dimensions shown below. They want to stock the pond with fish that require 2sqft of surface area each. How many fish can they put in their new pond? Round your answer down to the nearest whole fish. Thank you!

terenzreignz (terenzreignz):

We kinda need the drawing/illustration.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Picutture coming in a moment!

terenzreignz (terenzreignz):

And cats are still not cool >:)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Cats ARE cool yo!!!!

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@terenzreignz Pic is up! =)

terenzreignz (terenzreignz):

Sorry, internet problems.. The gist of this is finding the area of this triangle here, you know how? Or rather, how have you been taught to find triangular areas?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

1/2bh for an area of a triangle right?

terenzreignz (terenzreignz):

Well, yeah, but this one has no given height... Are we to use trigonometry?

Directrix (directrix):

@catsarecool1995 This looks like a Law of Cosines problem.

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