Time
for MATH MINUTE! (provide your favorite theme music here).
Get
out your paper & pencil because I have a new puzzle for you!!
PUZZLE #32 Goats
are good. Sept.
3-7
You
have a grassy yard which is hard to cut and you hear that goats like this kind
of grass.
Voila!
Buy a goat!
So
you buy a goat and build a 3ft. by 4ft. shelter for it.
You
put the shelter in the center of your yard, and you put the goat on a 7ft.
rope.
How much area will the goat eat if the other end of the rope is attached to a corner of the shelter?
Send
your comments, ideas and solutions before Monday to this email address, and be sure to
put MM in the subject line: parksjm@potsdam.edu
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See
you next time on MATH MINUTE! (theme music fades out here).