document.write( "Question 733907: Sofia is making a Valentine's Day card for her mother on a 11-inch-by-9-inch sheet of construction paper. Along the perimeter of the card, she will glue a length of red ribbon. She will also glue quarter circles of the ribbon in each corner of the card. The radius of each quarter circle is 3-inches. How much red ribbon will Sofia need for the card?\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "So far, I have drawn a square and by the length I put 11 and the width I put 9 and then applied it to the formula P=2(11+9). \n" ); document.write( "
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Step 1) Start with a 9\" by 11\" piece of paper\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Step 2) Add circles of radius 3 to each corner like you see below\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Step 3) Cut off the corner bits of the rectangle that are outside of the circle\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Step 4) Erase the circles and you have your basic shape/outline of the paper. This is the path that the ribbon will take. \r
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