Please, please, please, help me!
Directions: A large pizza at Tony's Pizzeria is a circle with a 14-inch diameter. Its box is a rectangular prism that is 1 14 8 inches long, 1 14 8 inches wide, and 3 1 4 inches tall. Your job is to design a crazy new shape for a large pizza. It can be any irregular polygon shape, but it must have at least five sides.
Tony says he will make and sell your crazy pizza if you can prove the following: • It is approximately the same area as the large pizza he sells now. • It fits inside the large box listed above. • It can be cut into 8‒12 equal-sized pieces.
Create one design for a crazy pizza that will meet all of Tony's requirements. 1. Create a representation of your design that includes measurements. 2. Prove mathematically, using appropriate formulas, that your design is approximately the same surface area as Tony’s large pizza. 3. Prove mathematically, using appropriate formulas, that your pizza will fit in the box. 4. Use diagrams or other models to prove that your design can be divided into 8‒12 equal-sized pieces. (Tip: You may use graph paper or the Virtual Geoboard to show how your pizza can be divided into equal-sized pieces.) Your design and proofs (model and mathematical) will be submitted as your portfolio assessment.
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I'm having troubles with this part, the shape I picked is a Hexagon.
can't read you attempts at fractions. Try something like 11 1/4 or 10 1/2
Consider using a regular pentagon with an apothem of 7", or the radius of the pizza. Look online to find the area of such a figure. It will be the smallest 5-sided box that will hold the pizza.
ANY figure can be divided into 8-12 pieces of equal size. Depending on how crazy it is, they might not be suitable to fit a pizza slice. (Of course, the pizza slices don't have to be the usual shape, either!)
I think we'd have a pretty bad relationship. People shouldn't get together just because they ask the same question.