Calculate the area of this shape
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I'll stick to approx 90.
Break into chunks.
There's the 7.6 x 7.2 rectangle = c55m2
The little bit bottom right is about 7m2
The bit left on the right side is about 16
The remainder at the top is about 12
ETA - diagram above makes the top bit a lot smaller, and reduces the right so maybe c75m2
Break into chunks.
There's the 7.6 x 7.2 rectangle = c55m2
The little bit bottom right is about 7m2
The bit left on the right side is about 16
The remainder at the top is about 12
ETA - diagram above makes the top bit a lot smaller, and reduces the right so maybe c75m2
Edited by NormalWisdom on Tuesday 25th October 13:14
Some Gump said:
If turf, is it not better to just count the number of widths, then add up the total length? For turf, surely 1m squared area can't be filled by reusing a 10cm strip 10m long, the grass will just die.
It can, actually. It's as tough as old boots provided it gets regulat water while sorting its life out. This summer I dug up some turf from one bit of the garden and used it to fill in an old flower bed. I used all manner of odd shapes and just stamped them into place. It all worked. The biggest proglem was that the joins tend to shrink a bit so you get gaps that you need to fill with earth. Passing animals, I suspect squirrels, have dug out some of the softer bits. But nothing's died and it's become a very lively bit of lumpy turf.Joat said:
A quick sketch out on autocad gives you 71.981 sqm with a perimeter of 38.7m
Without knowing the angles, or a few extra distances across the space so you build the whole shape out of triangles, you can't determine the shape precisely, so quoting an area to 5sf is dissapearing into spurious precision.Given the info we've got, I'd say 71 +/- 6 m^2
Edited by ATG on Tuesday 25th October 13:42
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