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G1   A bed that is feet wide must enter through a door along the foot wall of a by foot room. What is the
largest length of a bed that can be rotated to fit into the position shown by the dotted lines against the back wall?

8 ft

worst position

20 ft 20 ft
4 ft

? ft

8 ft

(Picture is not to scale. Enter your answer as a decimal number to 2 decimal places.)

G2   The four-sided solid shown is the part of the solid sphere (of radius 2, centered at the origin) in the first octant.
Find its total surface area.

(Type pi for . Use to denote multiplication; e.g. type 2*pi for . Use for powers; e.g. type pi 2 for .)

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G3   To estimate the height of a skyscraper 1km in the distance, Jenny finds that if her friend Steve stands 2.5
meters away, the top of his head just lines up with the top of the building. Steve is 2 meters tall, and Jenny's eye is 1.5
meters from the ground. How high is the building?

(The dotted lines may help you.)

2m
1.5 m

1 km 2.5 m

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