Fountation Volume Lab
By: Fletch Kuehne and Ryannie Orlick
April 7, 2005


Ryannie and I worked as a team, we were asked to measure the volume of the fountation in the circle of MSSD. Gallaudet University wants us to find the volume of the fountation for soil and flowers purposes. The major purpose of finding the volume is to fill the foundation up with soil and flowers to make MSSD and Gallaudet University's environment looks beautifully. At first, we used centimeters to measure the whole volume of the fountation. We measured the each length of the fountation then eliminated the decorated designs that are located in the middle of the fountation. We were literally focused on drawing the scale to make our graph very precisely. We were exasperated with our graph paper because it often showed that it was absolutely mismatched with the picture of the fountation at MSSD. Lastly, we have done our graph achievely, we started over and measured everything again and we somewhat made our graph practically perfect. We changed all measurements in meters by moving the decimal left twicely. Centimeters and meters come in the same metric unit, it is easier for us to transform the measurement if we used the metric unit.

We used the formula A=1/2bh in order to find the area of each triangle we measured on the below picture. We also used the formula A=LW to find the area of either square or rectangle.






Here is the recommendation that we would like to purpose you.
We, Fletch Kuehne and Ryannie Orlick, purpose you to fill the fountation up with the approximately amount of 13.878 m3 soil. We have done everything in correct steps, we took one step at a time.


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