Find the area of the shaded region in the figure above using two different ways. Do you get the same answer both ways? Investigate what's going on here.

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Step-by-step explanation:

First way:

Find the area of the big triangle and subtract the area of the rectangle.

Area of shaded part = 1/2 * 25 * 34 -  10*24 =  185 m^2

Second way:

Add the area of the 3 shaded triangles:

= 1/2 * 15 * 24 + 1/2 * 5 * 10 + 1/2 * 5 * 10

= 180 + 25 + 25 = 230 m^2

The areas are different. The reason must be that given lengths are not possible for this diagram.

Check The length of the hypotenuse of the large triangle by 2 different methods:

The hypotenuse = √(25^2 + 17^2)

= 30.23.

Now let's work out the hypotenuse of the shaded triangles:

Top one = √(15^2 ^ 12^2) = 19.21

Bottom one = √((5^2 + 10^2) = 11.18

Adding these we get 30.39  which is different than previously calculated but it should be the same.

So what we have here is impossible geometry. This accounts for the different areas.

answer: first option i.e. 'a' is correct.

step-by-step explanation:

since we have given that

number of minutes to wrap a small gift box = 4 minutes

we need to find the number of gifts to be wrapped in 5 minutes

since there is a direct variation, as the number of minutes will increase with   number of gifts to be wrapped.

so, let the number of gifts to be wrapped in 5 minutes be x.

so, it becomes,

hence, first option 'a'   is correct.