Showing posts with label primefactorization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label primefactorization. Show all posts

Monday, November 1, 2010

Scribe 4

I chose to do #4 and it is questions 17,19, and 21.






17. Use prime factorization to figure out if 54 is a perfect square.



The answer is...



No. 54 is not a perfect square.
















19. Find the distance that the students ran. They ran around the field twice.




They ran 1360m.












21.Kate wants to put a patio in her backyard. The patio stones have an area of 1m.She created this design.









a)What is the area?

56m2

b)What other possible dimensions are there?

There is 7 by 8 and 28 by 2.

c)Can you make the patio in to a square?Explain.

No.