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Ravish wanted to make a temporary shelter for his car by making a box-like structure with tarpaulin that covers al the four sides and the top of the car (with the front face as flap which can be rolled up). Assuming that the stitching margins are very small, and therefore negligible, how much tarpaulin would be required to make the shelter of height 2.5 m witt base dimensions 4 m ✕ 3 m?

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Solution

The shelter is a box-like structure and hence cubical.

We have,

Length of the cuboid

Breadth of the cuboid

Height of the cuboid

The total surface area of the cuboid,

The area of the base,

The quantity of tarpaulin required,

So the quantity of tarpaulin required is.


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