Recent content by Calcolat

Wow thank you so much to all 3 of you as that was a huge help! I spent over an hour on this last night re-reading the maths book and trying similar questions. Even tho I was okay with the other questions I still couldn't figure this one out and now I know why. Thank you for not only...

Ohhh I see... I incorrectly assumed that as the radius was 10cm it would make the height of the trapezium 10cm as well. Thanks for clarifying how that works. Well I've now tried to have a go calculating the value of h using trig however I'm still way off the books answer of 150.8cm^2 :( I...

Hello all, I've posted an image below of a very basic maths question I can't seem to solve. Even after looking at the correct answer I cannot seem to figure out how they got it no matter what I try. The question is: http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6179/mr2q19.jpg From what I can...