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K-man, You understood the problem correctly. I was just trying to connect it to my other park problem (even if so loosely).

I would had assumed the first option of belts because the belt still would have to go through the loops.

North of the walking trails, we are building a children's play-space. The play-space will take up a square space. In this play-space there will be a playground set (PGS for short). The center of the PGS is located in this square space with three paths from the medians and the median intersection running to it. From one corner of the square there is a 20 ft straight path going to the PGS. The diagonal opposite of that side also has a straight path but its distance is 17ft. The third straight path is 25ft and also comes in off a diagonal of the square. So clearly the bike trails at the medians do not go straight to these paths. The paths only become straight once in the square play-space. Now we must purchase safety flooring to protect the children from injury while in the play space. Assume that the PGS also requires specialty flooring underneath the structure (so its area doesn't take away from the play-spaces area) how much would we spend on this flooring, if the material and installation costs 7.50 a square foot? Note: the distances given were distances from the corners of the square not the distances from the medians.

Can anyone solve the problem with vectors?

was just taught how to mark two best answers!

I am planning a new community project. I wish to build a simple community park. Currently I am developing access to the park, as the area is rural and this part is really underdeveloped. So we plan to build roads to and have trails through the park. Three straight roads will be used to surround the park while two straight bike trails will connect all three roads together. One of the roads will be 6 miles long; another will be 8 miles long. One bike trail will start at the median point of the 6 mile road and go to the corner of the other two roads. The other bike trail will start at the median point of the 8 mile road and go to the corner of the other two roads. The two trails intersect at a right angle. What is the length of the third road? How big is the park?

big as in 5 inches too long.

I am a nice round person . I recently enjoyed the benefits of a weightloss program. Accepting money from the weigthloss company, I am going to be one of those handsome people that show you how much weight they have loss by pulling on their waistbands to indicate the fat they used to have. My belt when looped in its old position is now an extra 5 inches to big. When i get on camera and hold my waistband out (with my belt in its old position) how far will it extend from my body?

I wish there was a way to designate two correct answers given that i had two people answer in completely different but perfectly logical ways.

Thanks! I honestly did use the search engine prior to posting.

I am sitting at a large table for a family reunion. The table carefully places me and my 8 cousins around the table. Given that we like to eat, the host made sure that everyone was placed equidistant from the person to their left and their right. Starting at me and going clockwise there was Eric, Donald, Chris, Becky, Amber, Isaac, Huey, and George. As soon as the food is delivered, Amber asked me to slide her the salt. After she finished with the salt, she passed the salt to Chris and handed pepper to Becky. Prove that the salt traveling from me to Amber is equivalent in distance to the trip the salt and pepper traveled from Amber to Chris and Becky, respectively.

You have a square with an area of 1 m2. You cut the square along its diagonal. Working with half of the square, you cut the square again but this time you cut a straight line that halves the half shape without bisecting the (remaining 90 degree) angle. The result of the cut leaves a triangle and a quadrilateral. Find the length and location of the shortest straight cut which divides the board into these two parts of equal area.

Two ladders are placed cross-wise in an alley to form a lopsided X-shape. The walls of the alley are not vertical, but are parallel to each other. The ground is flat and horizontal. The bottom of each ladder is placed against the opposite wall. The top of the longer ladder touches the alley wall 18 feet vertically higher than the top of where the shorter ladder touches the opposite wall, which in turn is 6 feet vertically higher than the intersection of the two ladders. How high vertically above the ground is that intersection?

You are given n > 0 of each of the standard denomination US coins: 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1. What is the smallest n such that it is impossible to select n coins that make exactly a dollar?

I didn't know there was a button. I just noticed the syntax from when I clicked reply to a post when I first became a member here

Very nice! I guess the Johnson's really didn't know their property size!!

yeah that is the picture i am looking for. i didn't do the best with this OP. Thank you for helping me say it better.

Yes. The roads are straight

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** to clarify: the Brunson's fence runs perfectly straight with their adjacent neighbor's fences.

Four homes are neighbors. The Alberto’s and Chang’s are adjacent to the Brunson’s and Johnson’s but only meet each other at a point. The Brunson’s and Johnson’s properties also only meet at a point. The combine yards of the properties are surrounded by three roads. There is a road that runs by Alberto and Johnson, another road going by Johnson and Chang, and a road that runs by the Brunson’s. The fence used to divide the Brunson’s property runs perfectly straight with his adjacent neighbors. The Albertson’s claim their property is 500 sq. ft., the Chang’s state that their property is only 300 sq. ft., and the Brunson’s property is 1000 sq. ft. However, the Johnson’s do not know how big their property is, all they know is that their property is the biggest property and a quadrilateral. Assuming his neighbors are correct, how big is their property?