@SecSeeBoi Do you agree with my explanation for the statue problem?
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@scietywi I thought width was constant
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@ivyrunnernyc Yes, I think you need more questions correct
@Topaz123 Wait really? Sigh, then nevermind.
@scietywi Sorry I honestly don’t know. To be honest, I, myself chose 90 pints because of the proportions mentioned previously but I never thought it the way you did. Still I don’t know if we can just assume the shape of the statue…
@Topaz123 gg then… lol
I answered 90 too. I think it said the thickness of the paint was negligent in the problem. I just thought about the pints in terms of surface area b/c the paint is only covering the outside of the statue. I could be wrong though
@ivyrunnernyc and @scietywi That is what I heard from previous years, but it might not be entirely true
I seriously don’t remember that width was constant…sigh…if I misread it…Gosh, such silly mistakes.
@SecSeeBoi Assuming the shape of the statue was just for simplicity. You can do this with any prism, pyramid, or irregular things. If the width and length were not constant, then you would have to account for it.
However, I don’t think it was width is constant. This is since if width was constant, the 1foot statue would look insanely weird compared to the 6ft one. I mean who wants to paint a statue that has weird proportions? But, this is just my take on it.
@Topaz123 Yeah the answer seem really easy to get so it’s likely it was a trick question.
@scietywi But I don’t think it’s right to assume the shape, You can even say the width is a weird number like the dimension be 6 x 2 x 2 but the 1 feet statue should always still be 1/6 proportional to that… That’s what i’m thinking.
@SecSeeBoi …that’s what i’ve been trying to explain. Thus I used variables l and w to do that.
They said that the thickness is the same, right?
@lequalSmart I don’t remember. It probably was there and I was prob stupid to not see it. Does anyone else remember?
I vaguely remember it, but only because people said it in this.
The width is constant, thus you are able to set up a proportion. The one that got me however was the bounded region one I did not realize it was pi until last minute lol and by then it was too late.
Ok heres what I think/remember:
The thickness of the paint is constant. I’m pretty sure that was there. Now, assume for a moment that the statue is that of a human, which would have a very curved shape. If you did a scaling, then the amount of paint would have to be smaller for the smaller statue. However, the thicknesses are the same. (It would involve weird calculus maybe???)
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