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    Dec 12, 2011, 02:21 PM
    Please help with this word problem.
    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?

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    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

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