Question #11

List places or situations in which surface area is important:

Buying a house or renting an area - apartment, space, etc.
*In case you need to know how big is the house or space. People usually needs to know the size of the rooms for them to pay for it and buy it.

Painting a room or a house.
*You need to know how much paint you're going to buy and use to paint whatever space you need to paint.

Buying a table.
*You first need the area of the space where you're going to put the table and then the area of the people so you know if it's going to fit in the space.

Buying carpet.
*You need the are of the space where you're going to put the carpet and how much carpet you will need to cover up the space.

Growing grass.
*If you're planning to grow grass in let's say your backyard with no grass at all and you want to cover it all. You have to know the area of your backyard to know how much grass you will have to put on it to cover it.

Building a house.
*You need to know the area of the lot (space where you're building the house)

Putting curtains or blinds.
* You need to know the area of the window you're going to cover and the (size length and width) of the blinds or curtains you need.

Tiling pools .or washrooms.
* You need to know the area of the washroom and the number of tiles you need.

Making a dress or any kinds of clothes for someone.
* You need to know the measurements of the person and the amount of fabric you will need.

Baking (brownies, cakes, etc.)
* You need to know the size of the pan, especially when your baking or making something that needs a baking pan. You need to know the size of the baking pan.

Building a pool.
*You need to know if the pool will actually fit and like how much you're going to dig for it to fit. You also need to know how much water you're going to put in the pool.

Wrapping presents.
*You need to know how much you're going to have to wrap and how much you need to cover it up.

When you're planning to decorate a space for a celebration.
*You need to know the area of the space you need to decorate to know how much decorations you need.

Watering plants.
*You need to know the size of whatever you're watering (for example: your lawn), you need to know how much water you need to water the whole thing.

Putting fertilizer on your plants.
*Just like watering your lawn. If you want to cover the whole lawn with fertilizer you have to know the size of your lawn to know how much fertilizer you need.

Road Trip.
*There are lots of examples here where you need to find area. First is the car, if you have lots of people and you are bringing lots of stuff with you, you need a car that will fit the car and to know how much stuff you can bring and how many people can go. Second, is the distance to where you are going.

Buying a cage or aquarium.
*You need to know the size and amount of animals you need to know what size of cage you're going to buy. You have to buy a cage that depends on how many pets you're going to put in it and the stuff that they need, like food and water bowl.

Question #11

11. List places or situations in which surface area is important. Compare your list with those of your class mates.

1) When you are designing a buliding.

-You need to know how many of a certain supply that you will need to finish the project. (eg. how much wood)

2) When painting a room.

-You need to know how much paint to buy based on how much it covers.

3) When (and if) you ever sew bed sheets.

-You need to know how much of the bed the sheets will cover.

4) When you are moving.

-You need to know how much space you will have for your furniture.

5) When you wrap a present.

-You need to know how much wrapping paper you will need based on the size of the present.

6) If you plan a wedding or other special event.

-You would need to know how much people and tables/chairs will fit into the rooms.

7) If you ever need to make ear warmers for an elephant.

-You would have to know the surface area of the elephants ears in order to make a hat.

8) If you are a clothing designer.

-You would need to know the size of the person to be able to make clothes that fit them perfectly.

9) If you decided to be a carpenter.

-You would need to know the surface area of people's floors in order to make carpets.

10) If you buy a door.

-You would need to know the measurements of the door frame so that the door would fit.

11) If you are writing an essay by hand.

-You would need to know how many pages that you would need based on how much you want to write.

12) If you ever decide to become anyone that teaches surface area.

-Well, obviously you need to know it to teach it!

13) If you are building out your backyard.

-You would need to know if you have enough space for a deck and pool.

14) When you are farming.

-You need to know if you have enough space for the amount of crops that you want, and if there is enough space for a certain type of crop that you may need more of.

15) When you are a real-estate agent.

-You would need to know if there is enough space for the amount of people that are going to live there.

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Question 11

11. List places or situations in which surface area is important. Compare your list with those of your class mates.

1) If you're buying carpet/tiles for flooring.

- You would need to know surface area of the room to know how much carpet/tiles you need to buy.

2) If you're painting the walls of a room.

- You would need to know how much paint to buy to make sure you have enough paint.

3) If you're a carpenter.

- When you're a carpenter you deal with a lot of measuring and with surface area because they need to know those kinds of things.

4) When you're buying furniture.

- If you are, you would need to know how well the furniture would fit into the room.

5) When you're kitchen cabinets.

- You would have to calculate the surface area of the kitchen cabinets and kitchen to figure out how the kitchen cabinets would fit into the kitchen.

6) When you're buying a hat.

- When you're buying a hat you need to know the surface area of your head and hat to see if the hat with fit your head perfectly.

7) If you're a construction worker.
- If you're a construction worker you have to know if whatever you're building will fit in the designated site.

8) If you're a contractor

- Contractors deal with construction or furnishing homes, so you would need to know how to calculate surface area.

9) When you're planning a big event.

- You have to know the surface area of the site and how many objects and people could fit into the site.

10) When you're building a CD rack.

- When you're building a CD rack, or any other shelf-like object, you would have to know the surface area of the objects the shelf or rack would hold, and how well it would fit inside of a room.

11) When you're potting plants.

- If you are potting plants you have to know the surface area of the plant so you know how much you have to dig in the ground so the plant has enough room in there to fit.

12) If you are an archeologist.

- If you were an archeologist and found dinosaur bones you'd need to have the information about those bones written out. That information would probably entail having to find the surface area of the bones.

13) If you're designing a shoe.

- If you were to design a shoe you would need to know the surface area of the foot so you know how much bigger the shoe has to be in order for the foot to fit inside comfortably.

14) If you're designing house hold objects.

- You would have to know how to find the smallest surface area possible so that the objects could fit nicely in a cupboard.

15) When you're watering your lawn.

- You would have to know the surface area of your lawn to know how much water would be used.

16) When you're putting up wallpaper.

- You would have to know how much wallpaper would cover up how much wall space.

17) Building a bird house.

- You would have to be able to calculate the surface area of the bird house so you know the measurements when you're constructing it.