Given:
2 parallelograms with an area of 9 1/3 yd²
height of each parallelogram is 1 1/3 yd
Area of parallelogram = base * height
We need to divide the combined area into two to get each parallelogram's base.
9 1/3 = ((9*3)+1)/3 = 28/3
28/3 ÷ 2 = 28/3 * 1/2 = 28/6 yd² or 4 4/6 yd² ⇒ 4 2/3 yd²
Area of each parallelogram is 4 2/3 yd²
4 2/3 yd² = base * 1 1/3 yd
14/3 yd² ÷ 4/3 yd = base
14/3 yd² x 3/4 yd = base
14*3 / 3*4 = base
42 / 12 = base
3 6/12 yd = base
or 3 1/2 yd = base
a) the base of each parallelogram is 3 1/2 yards
b) we can assume that the two parallelograms form a rectangle.
area of a rectangle is length times width.
length is 3 1/2 yds * 2 = 7 yds
width is 3 1/2 yds
Area of rectangle = 7 yds * 3 1/2 yds
Area = 7 yd * 7/2 yd
Area = 7*7 / 2 yd²
Area = 49 / 2 yd²
Area = 24 1/2 yd²
We have been given that a company makes wax candles in the shape of a solid sphere. Each candle has a diameter of 15 cm. We are asked to find the number of candles that company can make from 70,650 cubic cm of wax.
To solve our given problem, we will divide total volume of wax by volume of one candle.
Volume of each candle will be equal to volume of sphere.
, where r represents radius of sphere.
We know that radius is half the diameter, so radius of each candle will be 
cm.
Now we will divide 70,650 cubic cm of wax by volume of one candle.
Therefore, 40 candles can be made from 70,650 cubic cm of wax.
All you need to do is multiply the amount of boys by the distance each boy runs.
9x3/5=5.4 miles
The boys run a combined distance of 5.4 miles.
