A problem by aarthi kumaran
Level
pending
To take a marriage tent poles are planted along the perimeter of a square field at a distance of 5m from each other and the total number of poles used is 20.What is the area in sq.m of the square field?
900
none of these
500
400
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1 solution
You find that there are 16 poles left after planting the corner poles. If you space them, you have 5 spaces of 5 meters, resulting in a square with a side length of 25. 25 x 25 = 625, which is none of the answers.