Hampton University Parking Lot Case Study

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Project #12: It is proposed to repair the asphalt on parking lot number 2 at Hampton University. Measure the Area of the lot to the nearest possible [foot] and present it graphically. Knowing that cost of asphalting is $7500 for the first one acre and $210 per each additional square yard, determine the total cost of the project. This report will discuss the methods used to measure the area of the lot and how the measurements were used to determine the cost of asphalting.

Background
When the group was coming up with a way to measure the lot, the lot was broken up into smaller, simpler shapes and found the area of those. Area is 2-dimensional meaning it has a length and a width. Area is measured in units squared; feet in this case because that was the largest unit that the tape measure provided. We used the formula for the area of a rectangle (Length times width or L*W). Measuring the lot was difficult because 1) it was too large for the measuring tape in some regions 2) the entrance and exit was abnormally shaped making it hard to measure with just measuring tape 3) not everything in the parking lot was asphalt and 4) there weren’t the same number of parking spots on both sides.

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The two parking spaces at the end of the lot were wider than the rest so the area of those were calculated separately. At this point the only things left to account for were the section in between the rows of parking spaces and the entrance/exit to the lot. The length of the middle section was entirely too long; measuring it with measuring tape would be a lengthy process. Instead the measurements of the width of the parking spaces were multiplied by the number of parking spots to obtain the length. For the width, the space between two parking spots was measured and added to the length of two parking spots or

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