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cheray
Dec 12, 2011, 02:21 PM
A local restaurant is hosting a chili cook-off. The restaurant is making award ribbons for the first, second, and third place winners. Each ribbon consists of a rectangle and an isosceles triangle. How many square inches of material will the restaurant need to make each ribbon?

cdad
Dec 12, 2011, 03:08 PM
The rectangle is easy to figure so Im going to leave that alone.

This is for your Isosclese Triangle.

Isosceles Triangle -- from Wolfram MathWorld (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/IsoscelesTriangle.html)