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Sheet # 81 Critical Thinking

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Use drawings, words, or numbers to explain how you got your answer.

Pat made the following home base plate from 43-cm square paper. What fraction of the 43-cm square paper does the home base plate represent ? (Hint: you can do it without multiplying numbers)

































Answer for sheet # 81

Rectangle ABCE is half the square 43 x 43 paper.

The triangle CDE is half the rectangle ABCE.

If you add rectangle and triangle, it is 3/4 of the 43 x 43 square.