Question

A restaurant uses square tables with sides of length 1.3 m and round tablecloths with diameter 2 m determine the percentage of each tablecloth which overhangs its Table

Answer 1

The tablecloth overhang is the amount of tablecloth that hangs over the edges of the table.

The area of the square table is 1.3m * 1.3m = 1.69m^2.

The area of the round tablecloth is pi * (diameter/2)^2 = pi * (2/2)^2 = pi * 1^2 = pi * 1 = pi m^2.

The overhang is the difference between the area of the round tablecloth and the square table.

Overhang = pi m^2 - 1.69m^2 = pi - 1.69

To find the percentage of the tablecloth that overhangs the table, we can divide the overhang by the area of the tablecloth and multiply by 100.

Overhang % = (pi - 1.69) / pi * 100 = (pi - 1.69) / pi * 100 = (3.14 - 1.69) / 3.14 * 100 = 1.45 / 3.14 * 100 = 46.14%.

So, the percentage of the tablecloth that overhangs the table is 46.14%.