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    5.6.

    4 Journal:
    The Stone Arch Journal
    Geometry Sem 1 Name:
    Date:

    Scenario: Trapezoidal Stone Arch

    Instructions:

    • View the video found on page 1 of this Journal activity.

    • Using the information provided in the video, answer the questions below.

    • Show your work for all calculations.

    The Students' Conjectures: During an archeological dig, the students found a voussoir
    from a semicircular stone arch. A voussoir is a trapezoidal (wedge-shaped) stone used
    to build an arch or vault.

    1. What are the students trying to find out? (1 point)

    How many stones were in the original arch

    2. Complete the table to summarize each student's conjecture: (2 points: 1 point for
    each row)

    Student Conjecture
    The stone has a trapezoidal face, it's
    legsare congruent, and the acute
    angles bothmeasure 84 degrees
    Trey
    Serena
    She thinks that there were 9 stones in
    theoriginal arch.
    Analyzing the Data:

    3. Draw a picture that shows the trapezoidal stone and the information that you know: (1
    point)

    4. Is this is an isosceles trapezoid? How do you know? (1 point)

    Yes,I know because both legs and base angles are congruent

    Understand the problem: Measuring an existing arch.

    Part 1: Serena’s drawing

    Follow these steps to find the angles of the trapezoids in Serena’s drawing. If the angles
    of her trapezoid match the angles of the trapezoid stone, then her drawing is correct.

    5. Find the measure of angle BAC. Hint: What is the sum of the measures of the vertex
    angles of the nine congruent isosceles triangles? (1 point)
    BAC:20 We know that an isosceles triangleis composed of a vertex angle and two base
    angles. The base angles are congruent to eachother. We also know that the sum of a
    triangle's angles is 180 degrees. Therefore, since there 9congruent angles, we divide
    180 by 9;180 degrees / 9 = 20 degrees each angle

    6. Triangle ABC is an isosceles triangle. Find the measure of each base angle. (2 points)

    B=80C=80Since it is an isosceles triangle, then B=C. But we are given with A=20. Recall
    that the sumof the interior angles of any triangle is 180.

    So we have

    A+B+C=180

    20+B+C=180

    B+C=160Since B=C, this means that B=80 and C=80 since their sum will be 160.

    7. Use the base angles of triangle ABC to find the measure of angle CBD. (1 point)

    CBD:100Since On the line ABD

    B+CBD =180°

    We knowB= 80°
    Putting the value

    80°+CBD=180°

    CBD=100°

    8. Find all the angle measures of trapezoid BCED: (2 points)

    B=100 C=100 E=80 D=80

    Solving the problem: How many stones were in the original arch?

    9. Compare these angle measures to the angles of the trapezoid stone. What can you
    conclude about Serena’s theory that the arch has nine stones? (2 points)

    The stone arch likelyhad more than 9 stones.This photo has a straight line from the
    ends. It means that this will bemeasure 180 degrees. Since from the given question the
    angle BAC is equal to 20, the remainingangles is also equal to 20. And 18 divided by 20
    is 9. So we can conclude that there are 9 ninestones in the arch.
    Part 2: Work backwards to find the number of stones that were in the original arch.

    10. Trapezoid EFGH represents the trapezoid stone that Trey found. Use your picture
    from Question 3 to find the measures of the interior angles of trapezoid EFGH.(1 point)

    G=84 H=84 E=96 F=96

    11. Imagine that the stone is part of an arch, and that there is an isosceles triangle JEF
    formed by extending sides GE and HF downward.

    Use the measure of the angles of the trapezoid to find to measure of the base angles
    JEF and JFE. Add these measurements to your drawing.(2 points, one for each angle
    measure)

    JEF=84 JFE=84
    12. Find the measure of the vertex angle EJF. (1 point)

    EJF=12

    13. The isosceles triangle EJF is one of an unknown number of isosceles triangles from
    the original arch.

    Each isosceles triangle had the same vertex angle as triangle EJF. The sum of the
    vertex angles equals 180°. (2 points, one for the correct equation, one for the correct
    solution.)

    Let x = the number of isosceles triangles.


    Fill in the equation with your answer from Q12 and solve for x.
    ___ • x = 180

    X=15

    14. There is one stone for each isosceles triangle. How many stones were in the original
    arch? (1 point)

    Fifteen
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