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Courtney is making 72 cookies. She will make rectangles and cut them into triangles. Each rectangle will be 2 inches by 4 inches.What is the area of each cookie? Is she wants to put icing on them, how many cans will she need if each can will cover 48 square inches? Found 2 solutions by stanbon, jim_thompson5910:Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Courtney is making 72 cookies. She will make rectangles and cut them into triangles. Each rectangle will be 2 inches by 4 inches.What is the area of each cookie? Is she wants to put icing on them, how many cans will she need if each can will cover 48 square inches?
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Each rectangle is 8 sq inches and make two triangles.
Each cookie will be 4 sq inches.
72 cookies = 36 rectangles = 36*8 sq inches = 288 sq in.
288/48 = 6 cans of icing.
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Stan H.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Since the area of a triangle is always half of the area of a rectangle with the same base and height, each cookie will have an area of
So each cookie will have an area of 4 sq inches. So the total area is
Total area=72*4=288
So all the cookies combined make an area of 288 sq in. Now simply divide 288 by 48 to find out how many cans she'll need:
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