Hey all. Zaher wrote in with this practice problem while back, and I thought it’d make a good post, so here it is:

A room is 24 feet long, 18 feet wide, and 9 feet high. How many square yards of wallpaper are needed to paper the four walls of the room?

You got your basic area problem, right? How do I know it’s “area”? Well, area is the space on the surface of something. Like, how much carpet covers a floor, or how many tiles on a bathroom wall. Or paint on a room. If you’re covering a surface, you’re talkin’ area. Now, how to solve it?
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Yeah, I know. Trans-what? GED math test don’t expect you to recognize lots of vocabulary like “transversal,” but you gotta know the ideas, right? It all about ideas. Here we got one of the GED geometry ideas. Geometry… that’s shapes, lines, and angles. Not too hard, cuz you can visualize it, y’know? And, I’m gonna show you somethin’ pretty cool… let’s take a look at what’s called a transversal.
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