PLANE FIGURES ey, 6 ween the avenues is 400 ft, . vont avenues It th eet, eae area of the block, a ty ength of each stree 500" i 1 { t t t ' t ' { 1 t t ' { { { l 4 = Solution. From B drop the perpendicular BD to line AC. Since BD by construction is the distance between the avenues, BD = 400. Applying the Pythagorean theorem to right triangle BDC, we obtain Dc = V(500)* = (400)? = 300. Since the sides of angle DBC are respectively perpendicular to the sides of angle BAC, angle DBC = angle BAC. Hence right triangles DBC and BAC aresimilar. Consequently, we write 4B _ 400 500 ~ 300° Solving for AB, we get AB = 2000, 3 Considering BC ; Keine ing BO m base and AB as altitude of the parallelogram, ¥€ (BC) (AB) = (509) (@ ) 99. ft, - (FP) (Ae) av - 51,087 69. yd: Ans, <1, A window glass 4.2 PROBLEMS Find the ares of sez 5Y 208. 10in, Find ite ale ‘in. Whats the area = (se which can be cut from a square tial wasted