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Michael McMain
May 30th, 2013
Macomb Math Science and Technology Center
Mr. Acre
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central angle, we can use the rule of tangent to find the height of one of the triangles,
shown in Figure 2.
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1
x=tan ( 11.25 ) 15
2
x=2 ( tan ( 11.25 ) 15 )
x 5.97
1
Area=16 ( xh)
2
Area=16
( 12 x 15)
Area=16
( 12 5.97 15)
tan ( ) =
O
A
measure, O is the opposite side length, and A is adjacent side length. If you have any of
the two you can solve for the variable, which is what I did to find the opposite side
length. Once the opposite side length was found it had to be multiplied by two, since the
right triangle is only half of the entire triangle, I used the regular area formula for a
triangle,
1
bh
, and multiplied it by sixteen since there are sixteen of those triangles in
2
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the entire polygon. The number found after all of that was approximately 716.08 feet
squared.
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1
x=tan ( 11.25 ) 14
2
x=2 ( tan ( 11.25 ) 14 )
x 5.57
1
Area=16 ( xh)
2
Area=16
( 12 x 14)
Area=16
( 12 5.57 14)
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14 as the height. In the end coming up with approximately 623.79 feet squared.
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1
x=tan ( 11.25 ) 13
2
x=2 ( tan ( 11.25 ) 13 )
x 5.17
1
Area=16 ( xh)
2
Area=16
( 12 x 13)
Area=16
( 12 5.17 13)
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1
x=tan ( 11.25 ) 12
2
x=2 ( tan ( 11.25 ) 12 )
x 4.77
1
Area=16 ( xh)
2
Area=16
( 12 x 12)
Area=16
( 12 4.77 12)
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Part 3: Volume of the Concrete Needed for the Footing, the Plexiglas
Needed for the Floor, and the Water Needed for the Aquarium.
The next thing needed is to fill the footing with concrete, which as we learned in
Figure 1, is three feet thick. The footing must be 3.5 feet deep, or underground. Without
the cement, there is no way for the tower to be built because there would be no footing.
Also the complete area of polygon four underground, will be hollow, so it will not be filled
with cement. I need to do a cost analysis of the cement, which is $115 per cubic yard.
To find the volume of the footing I will need to subtract the volume of polygon four from
the volume of polygon one.
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Volume=A b h
Volume=458.29 3.5
Volume 1604.03 Feet 3
Figure 13. Work to Find the Volume of Polygon Four
Figure 13 above shows the work to find the volume of polygon four. It is basically the
same thing as Figure 12, but the area of the base is 458.29 instead of 716.08.
Volume of Footing=V Polygon 1 V Polygon 4
Volume of Footing=2506.31604.03
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Figure 15 above shows the flooring. It is said that I need to have a four inch floor made
out of Plexiglas that will extend to polygon four.
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In order to find how much the Plexiglas will cost I need to figure out the volume of
Figure 15. We know that the height is 4 inches, which can be represented 4/12, and the
area of the base is approximately 458.29 square feet, so when I multiply them together I
get approximately 152.77 cubic feet. In order to see how much the Plexiglas will cost, I
will need to compare the area of the Plexiglas and the area of the floor. The area of the
floor in inches is approximately 5499.53 inches squared and the area of the Plexiglas is
4608 inches squared. So because 5499.53 divided by 4608 is approximately 1.19, I
know that it is going to take more than one sheet, but less than two to cover the floor in
Plexiglas, and because you cannot buy .19 of the Plexiglas you will need to buy two
sheets, which will cost $2200.
The last thing you wanted me to do is find the volume of water you will need to
get in order for the aquarium to be 75% full. The volume of polygon four can be seen in
Figure 14. In order to do this I will have to multiply the volume of polygon four, where all
of the water will be located, and multiply it by , to represent it being 75% filled. So the
V =1604.03
3
4 , having the end volume of the water be
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is two times the base. Because this is all dealing with the outer wall, everything is
related to polygon two.
5.57 Feet
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Figure 18. One Outside Face With Door and Half Window
Figure 18, shown above, shows the door that has the dimensions 3x5 with the half
window on top of it. To find the lateral surface area of this I have to find the surface area
of the entire rectangle, than subtract the area of the door and window. We know the
length of the base is approximately 5.57 feet, and the height is approximately 11.14 feet.
When those are multiplied together the surface area of the entire rectangle is
approximately 62.04, and now I need to find the surface area of the door and the
window on the top. In the end, the building will only have one of these faces.
To find the surface area of the door I just multiply the length, 3, times the height,
5, and when I do that I get 15. Now to find the area of the half window will be tricky. I
can set it up like Figure 3 again, on a smaller scale, where instead of 15 as the height,
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plug in three. This is to find the base. The central angle will stay the same, 22.5, so I
1
x=tan ( 11.25 ) 1.5
, in the end getting
2
approximately 0.6 for the length of one side. Then to find the entire surface area, I am
going to find the surface area as if it were full, than divide it by two. The equation being,
A=
( ( ))
1
1
16 bh
2
2
A=
( (
1
1
16 0.6 1.5
2
2
))
, in the end,
getting the area to be approximately 3.58. So the area of the door plus the area of the
window on top of it is approximately 18.58 feet squared.
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Figure 19, shown above, shows the complete window on one of the walls. In the end,
the actual building will have two of these faces.
To find the surface area of this you subtract the area of the window from the area
of the rectangle. Under Figure 18 I found the area by using the formula
A=16
( 12 bh)
where b is 0.6 and h is 1.5, simplifying the equation I got the area of one window to be
approximately 7.16 feet squared.
where
AR
A
( R 16)(A W 2+ A D )
,
LSA=
AW
AD
represents the area of the door. After being plugged in the equation becomes this,
LSA=( 62.04 16 )(14.32+18.58) , the end result being approximately 959.73 feet
squared, for the entire lateral surface area of the outer wall.
Part Five: Volume of the Inner Base Prism
The next thing to do is to basically find the volume of the inner base. Because
this is the inside of the tower, everything will be associated with polygon three. Also the
wall, or the distance from polygon two to polygon three is one foot thick.
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5.17 Feet
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where
AB
approximately 5991.26 feet cubed for the volume of the inner prism.
Part Six: Pyramid Top of the Outer Pyramid showing the Height of the Outer
Pyramid and Slant Height of One Lateral Face of the Outer Pyramid.
Next thing on the list is to find the height of the outer pyramid, the slant height of
the outer pyramid, and find the angle measure between the prism base and the pyramid
face found at the foot of the slant height. Because everything in this part is on the outer
pyramid, polygon two will be used. It is required that the height of the pyramid is three
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times the length of one side of polygon two. Because one side length of polygon two is
approximately 5.57 feet, you would multiply that by three to get approximately 16.71 feet
for the height of the pyramid.
14 +16.71 =c
475.18=c
c 21.8 Feet
Figure 23. Work To Find the Slant Height
Figure 23 shows how I got the slant height. I got the slant height by using the
Pythagorean Theorem. Because I know the base and the height of the triangle, all I had
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to do was use the Theorem to find the hypotenuse. My final answer for the slant height
is approximately 21.8 feet.
The last thing I need to do in this part is to find the angle measure between the
prism base and the pyramid face found at the foot of the slant height. To do that it is
relatively simple. Because I can make a right triangle out of the distance from the center
of the base, the height of the pyramid, and the slant height, all I need to do is use
tangent and solve for theta, theta being the angle measure needed.
tan ( ) =
O
A
tan ( ) =
16.71
14
tan 1
=
( 16.71
14 )
50.04
Figure 23. Work to Find the Angle Measure
Figure 23 shows how I found the angle measure between the polygon base and the
pyramid. I found it by using tangent and solved for theta. In order to get theta alone I
had to apply the inverse tangent to both sides. When I did this, I got the angle measure
to be approximately 50.04.
Part Seven: One Lateral Face of the Outer Pyramid
This next part is all about finding the lateral face and the angle measures along
with getting the lateral surface area of the pyramid.
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21.8 Feet
5.57 Feet
1
A= bh
, where
2
b is the base and h is the height. I already know both, so I will just plug the numbers in.
1
A= 5.57 21.8
, after simplifying the final area is approximately 60.70 feet squared.
2
To find the angle measure I in the two bottom corners, I will use tangent.
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tan ( ) =
21.8
2.78
=tan 1
( 21.8
2.78 )
82.72
Figure 25. Work To find Angle Measure of Bottom Corners
Figure 25 shows how I found the angle measures of the two bottom corners. I say to
bottom corners because it is an isosceles triangle, so those two angles are congruent. I
first set up the tangent of theta equals 21.8 over 2.78 because tangent is opposite side
over adjacent side, then I applied the inverse tangent to both sides to get theta alone.
After doing that all, the angle measure is approximately 82.72.
To find the angle measure of the top angle, I will simply take the two angles I
already know, 82.72, and subtract their sum from 180 because there is 180 in a
triangle.
A measure =180 ( 82.72 2 )
A measure =180165.44
A measure 14.56
Figure 26. Work To find Last Angle
Figure 26 shows how I found the angle measure of the last angle in the triangle. As I
explained in the paragraph above, 180 minus 165.44 equals the last angle measure
because all of the angles should make 180
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To find the lateral surface area of the pyramid I will multiply the area of one
triangle by 16, because there is 16 of those triangles in the pyramid.
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537.86 15.71
3
V 2781.66 Feet 3
Figure 28. Math for Volume of Pyramid
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Figure 28 shows how I found the volume of the pyramid. The volume formula for a
pyramid is area of the base times the height, divided by three. I already knew all of
these from previous parts so I just had to plug in. After simplifying the final volume was
found to be approximately 2,781.66 feet cubed.
Part Nine: My Tower
For the last math portion, I will be finding the total surface area of the tower and
the entire volume. I could use a long math equation, or I can just add together the
surface areas of the prism and the pyramid, and add together the volumes of the prism
and the pyramid. So I am going to do the most efficient way and use what I already
know. For the surface areas, I will refer to part four where I found the surface area of the
entire prism and to part seven, where I found the surface area of the pyramid. The
numbers I got for those are approximately 959.73 feet squared, for the entire lateral
surface area of the outer wall, and lateral surface area of the pyramid came out to be
approximately 971.27 feet squared, so added together, the entire surface area is
approximately 1931. For the volume, I will refer to part five where I found the volume of
the inner tower, and part eight where I found the volume of the inner pyramid. I got the
volume to be approximately 5,991.26 feet cubed for the volume for the inner prism and
approximately 2,781.66 feet cubed for the volume of the inner pyramid. Added together
the complete volume of the tower is approximately 8,772.92 feet cubed.
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cement to fill the footing will be approximately 902.27 feet. The tower should have one
door and two windows, and with that considered the entire surface area of the tower is
approximately 1,931 feet squared and the complete volume of the inside of the tower is
approximately 8,772.91 cubic feet.
Some problems that happened during this is making the model exact was
basically impossible, especially considering there was so many sides to the tower, and
getting all of the angle measures of the model was hard as well. None of the math was
extremely difficult. Other than the model the only other hard thing was to have time
management and not procrastinate, even though I may have for a long while.
It feels good to be finished though. Finishing the tower signifies going to the next
challenge in life. While it is very time consuming, it is sort of fulfilling to finally finish it.
Basically I have no idea what I have learned, other than that I procrastinate (which we
all know), and it is hard to build large models to scale.