Geometry Lab

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Home Office Remodeling Assignment Building a Home Office

Selected Learning Outcomes for Unit 2: Upon completion students will be able to: o Estimate &calculate area, perimeter, and volume for regular/irregular shapes in applied problems. o Convert units of measurement using dimensional analysis for various systems of measurement.

Introduction: Making the most of the floor space in your home is a great idea when you have a need and some space that can repurposed. Do-It-Yourself projects can be a way to save money. You currently need a home office and you have an under-utilized sun room. That sun room is the solution you need to convert the sun room into a home office. The sun room is a great solution since it has floor, ceiling, walls, and windows already. All you need to do is a bit of renovation and you decide that you can do most of the work yourself (perhaps with the help of a few friends). To complete this Do-It-Yourself project, you will do four (4) things:

1) Install new flooring 2) Install baseboard 3) Install air conditioning/heating 4) Install a flower bed outside the office

A sketch of the floor of the sun room—soon to be home office—and its dimensions are on the next page.

Directions: For each of the items related to the conversion of the sun room to home office:

• Show the work done to get your final answer. If there is no work, there will be no credit given. • Work must be neat, complete, organized and correct to receive full credit. Round all final

answers to the nearest tenth of a unit unless directions/information provided for an item require another form. Final answers should include appropriate units.

• This is a group lab and when you sign the submitted lab, you are agreeing that the work is complete and correct. All members of the group will receive the same grade.

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Sun Room – Soon to be Home Office

Door into home

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Window

Sliding door to outside

7 feet

8.5 feet

17 ft 3 in

8 ft 9 in

Flower Bed

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1. Determine the cost of flooring the home office with carpet tiles, ceramic tile, and laminate flooring. (Just flooring – not labor, tools, equipment, etc). Show all calculations. Include units with final answers in space provided.

Carpet Price : $46.44 per box of 16 carpet tiles. Sold by the box only.

Ceramic Tile: $2.98 for each individual tile. Sold by the individual tile.

LaminateFlooring: $34.88 for a box that covers 17.5 square feet. Sold by the box only.

Each tile is 18” x 18”.

Each tile is 12” x 12”.

a) Calculate the cost of flooring the new office with carpet tiles. (10 points) b) Calculate the cost of flooring the new office with ceramic tile. (10 points) c) Calculate the cost of flooring the new office with laminate flooring. (10 points) d) Choose the type of flooring you would install in the new office. What considerations did you make

when selecting your flooring? List/explain at least two considerations. (4 points)

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2. Now that the flooring is installed, it is time to put in the baseboards. Note that baseboard must be purchased in whole strips. You may not purchase any fractional part of a strip. For this assignment, you may ignore the width of any doors when calculating the amount of baseboard needed.

Option A: BaseBoard Polystyrene $9.28 per 6 foot strip Sold by the strip.

Option B: Baseboard Primed MDF $14.31 per 12 foot strip Sold by the strip.

Option C: Baseboard Oak Polystyrene $12.22 per 8-foot strip Sold by the strip.

a) How much baseboard will be needed for your home office? (10 points) b) My first choice is Option _______ . Calculate the cost of purchasing the amount of baseboard needed

for this option. (10 points) c) My second choice is Option _______ . Calculate the cost of purchasing the amount of baseboard

needed for this option. (10 points) d) Choose the type of base board you would install in the new office. What considerations did you

make when selecting your baseboard? List/explain at least two considerations. (4 points)

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3. You need to provide some comfort by installing a heating/air conditioning unit. Option 1: Wall mount air conditioner with heater Cost: $1372.00

Option 2: Free-standing air conditioner with heater Cost: $999.99

Option 3: Window Air Conditioner with heater Cost: $799.99

Heats/cools up to 2600 cu ft

Heats/cools up to 1750 cu ft

Heats/cools up to 2350 cu ft

a) How many cubic feet of space will you need to heat/cool in your home office if the ceiling

height is 8 feet? (10 points)

b) Choose the air conditioning option you would install in the new office. What considerations did you make when selecting your air conditioner/heater unit? List/explain at least two considerations. (4 points)

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4. The interior work done and now you will plant a butterfly garden. You select Black-eyed Susans, Bee Balm, Russian Sage, and Chrysanthemums to plant in your garden to provide a variety of color, height, and texture to attract butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. a) You will plant enough flowers to fill the bed. How many plants will you need to purchase if

each plant requires 2.25 square feet of space when fully grown? (10 points)

b) As a last touch, once the flowers are planted, you will fill the bed with mulch to a depth of 6 inches. Mulch is sold in bags holding 2 cubic feet for $3.33. How much mulch will you need to purchase, rounded to the nearest whole cubic foot? What is the cost of the mulch? (8 points)