Hints and tips

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Part 1

What are you being asked to find?
What shape is the lake?
- Regular? E.g. Square, rectangle, triangle?
- Compound (also called composite shapes)? I.e. made up of regular shapes?
or
- Irregular?  I.e. not made up of regular shapes.

Remember, you can use any method to find the solution to the question. If you find lots of different ways include these  in your presentation and say why your team chose the method you chose and not others.

Part 2

What are you being asked to find?
Is there another word for this?
How can you calculate this when you have the area?

Part 3

What are you being asked to find?
What information are you given?
Remember the information is given in units per second, you must change the answer from seconds to hours.

Part 4

What are you being asked to find?
What information are you given?
What information do you already know?