Problem:
Four friends, Art, Roger, Paul and Trisha, bake cookies, and all cookies have the same thickness. The shapes of the cookies differ, as shown.
- Art's cookies are trapezoids:
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- Roger's cookies are rectangles:
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- Paul's cookies are parallelograms:
- Trisha's cookies are triangles:
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Each friend uses the same amount of dough, and Art makes exactly cookies.
How many cookies will be in one batch of Trisha's cookies?
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Solution:
The triangle's area is in , or half that of the trapezoid. So Trisha will make twice as many cookies as Art, or .
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