SOLUTION: Part of the park is a square garden, the dimensions of the garden are 50ft by 200 ft. There is a diagonal brick pathway crossing the garden. The pathway is 6 bricks wide. Estimate
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Question 799332: Part of the park is a square garden, the dimensions of the garden are 50ft by 200 ft. There is a diagonal brick pathway crossing the garden. The pathway is 6 bricks wide. Estimate the number of bricks in the pathway Found 2 solutions by solver91311, mathstutor494:Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Can't be done from the information given. You can use the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate the length of the diagonal, but you don't provide any information as to the thickness of the bricks. It could be a whole lot of very skinny bricks or not so many thicker bricks.
John
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My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
