Daniel buys a block of clay shaped like a cube with edges
that are 10 inches long to use in his
art class. He decides to cut the clay
into two pieces. He places a wire
across the diagonal of one of the
faces of the cube, as shown in the
figure. Then he pulls the wire
10 in.
straight back to create two
congruent chunks of clay,
Daniel wants to keep one chunk of the clay for later use so he places a sheet of
plastic on the surface that he cut. What was the shape of the area he covered and,
to the nearest whole square inch, what was its size?
Process
Application
Scrutinize
Solution