On a final for a creative writing course. Ben was required to write a combination of at least 10 poems or paragraphs. Ben knew that each poem would take him 30 minutes to write
while a paragraph would only take 10 minutes. Ben was given two hours to complete the
exam.

Write an inequality based on time constraint and write another inequality based on items needed.

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geometry: triangles

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call the larger triangle abc

then the smaller triangle cde is similar to abc (all angles are equal, aaa).  

ab is the side that is 36, and we wish to find de, the side corresponding to ab

area_cde = area_abc - area_cde --> area_abc / area_cde = 2

let x=length of de

ratio of areas = (ratio of sides)^2

+2+=+%2836%2fx%29%5e2+

+2+=+1296%2fx%5e2+

++x%5e2+=+1296%2f2+=+648+

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