Pennington

Mathematics

31 March, 19:23

Katie works for a company that designs children's playhouses. The diagram shows her design for a new playhouse. Katie can select the color of the plastic used to make the playhouse. Panels can be cut from 14-ft by 14-ft sheets of plastic.

Play house is made of triangular prism which is placed up on a rectangular prism. The dimension of rectangular prism are length 13.2 ft, width 13.2 ft and height 6.6 ft. The dimension of triangular prism are slant height 8.8 ft and base same as the length of the rectangle.

Part A

How many sheets of plastic will Katie need? Explain.