Question

I really need help on this! Please anyone ?

Answer 1

What is the question

Answer 2

I have this, that's all I can figure out though

Answer 3

@KendrickLamar2014

Answer 4

@Nnesha

Answer 5

Yep, that looks good so far. Do you know the formula for area of a trapezoid?

Answer 6

Ah, you have it written at the top of the page. Can you find the areas of each of the trapezoids using the area formula?

Answer 7

I need help with that honestly

Answer 8

Let's look at the top trapezoid. What is the height?

Answer 9

165

Answer 10

Great! And what are the lengths of the two parallel sides?

Answer 11

187.5 and 397.5

Answer 12

Great! Those are your b1 and b2. :-) Can you try plugging those numbers into the formula?

Answer 13

Yeah hold on one sec :)

Answer 14

Sure. :-)

Answer 15

A=82.5(187.5+397.5) A=15,468.75+32,793.75 A=48,262.5
A=112.5(397.5+225) A=44,718.75+25,312.5 A=70,031.25

Answer 16

Great! :-) Any thoughts from here?

Answer 17

I was thinking adding the two sums

Answer 18

Sounds good. :-)

Answer 19

118,293.75

Answer 20

Great! Any thoughts from here?

Answer 21

No now im lost

Answer 22

Ok, we are trying to find the cost of the land per square foot.

Answer 23

We have the cost of the land and the total square footage.

Answer 24

So, we can do the cost divided by the square footage to get the cost per square foot. :-)

Answer 25

3.83092936 so yes he could buy it because its less than 4$ correct? :)

Answer 26

How would I check this?

Answer 27

Yep, that's great! :-)

Answer 28

Hm, how to check it? Let me think.

Answer 29

I'm not really sure of a good way to check it, but what you did looks great! :-)

Answer 30

Thank you !!!!

Answer 31

You're welcome. :-)