Rylend Benoit

5/21/14

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Kevin, Hunter, Josh and I created a club house named “Math clubhouse”.The room I created is made of a rectangle, two triangles and a half circle. To find the area to my room start by finding the area of each individual piece. Then add the area of each shape to find the final area of the room. To calculate the perimeter of the whole room you count the length of each outer side and add them. To calculate the total volume you need take the total area and multiply it by the height.

 

So the area of the room is 2,376 ft squared. The perimeter of my room is 868 ft. The total volume of my room is 35,640 ft cubed.

WHY IS THE PERIMETER, AREA AND/OR VOLUME USEFUL TO A DESIGNER AND WHO ELSE WOULD THIS INFORMATION BE USEFUL FOR?

Perimeter is useful to a designer because if the designer  wanted to decorate with light, crown molding, hang light and extension cords and for the electrical wires. This could be use a contractor. Area is useful to a designer for a painter, flooring person, carpenter doing flooring.Volume is useful to a designer because if they need to put items or big items in a room they need to know volume. Volume would be useful to a postal office need to know the volume of the boxes and the trucks so they know how much can fit into the box/truck, construction worker (a paver).