document.write( "Question 1051514: Zaria and Maisie joined the National Math Club, and during the first club meeting they played Fence
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document.write( "Me In. In the game, Zaria and Maisie were given two six-sided dice and a game board that was a
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document.write( "20unit by 20-unit grid. During each turn, one player rolled the dice and calculated the product of
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document.write( "the two numbers that were rolled. This product could be considered either the area of a rectangle, in
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document.write( "units squared, or the perimeter of a rectangle, in units. The player then had to draw a rectangle with
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document.write( "either that area or that perimeter and with integer dimensions (necessarily the same as the two
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document.write( "numbers rolled) on the game board. Zaria and Maisie took turns rolling the dice and then drawing a
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document.write( "rectangle. If either was unable to draw a rectangle in the remaining area, the player would lose a
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document.write( "turn. Play continued until the entire board was completely filled with non-overlapping rectangles.\r
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document.write( "How many possible products can Zaria and Maisie roll?\r
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document.write( "What is the area of the largest possible rectangle that
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document.write( "can be drawn during a turn in this game?\r
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document.write( "If Zaria rolled a 3 and a 6 on her first turn, how many
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document.write( "different sized rectangles could she draw?\r
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document.write( "What is the minimum number of rectangles it could
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document.write( "possibly take for Zaria and Maisie to completely fill the
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Algebra.Com's Answer #667004 by stanbon(75887)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! How many possible products can Zaria and Maisie roll? \n" ); document.write( "----- \n" ); document.write( "20*20 = 400 1by1 squares \n" ); document.write( "------------------- \n" ); document.write( "What is the area of the largest possible rectangle that \n" ); document.write( "can be drawn during a turn in this game? \n" ); document.write( "6 by 6 = 36 sq units \n" ); document.write( "---------------------------- \n" ); document.write( "If Zaria rolled a 3 and a 6 on her first turn, how many \n" ); document.write( "different sized rectangles could she draw? \n" ); document.write( "6 by 3 or 3 by 6 \n" ); document.write( "------------------------- \n" ); document.write( "What is the minimum number of rectangles it could \n" ); document.write( "possibly take for Zaria and Maisie to completely fill the \n" ); document.write( "game board? \n" ); document.write( "6 by 6:: 9 of them \n" ); document.write( "2 by 6:: 6 of them \n" ); document.write( "2 by 2:: 1 of them \n" ); document.write( "---------------- \n" ); document.write( "Cheers, \n" ); document.write( "Stan H. \n" ); document.write( "----------- \n" ); document.write( " |