The school gardener is drawing a plan of the playground
MATHEMATICS · Multi-part · CBSE · Mathematics · Lines and Angles · Lines and Angles
Problem
The school gardener is drawing a plan of the playground. In this plan:
• the central flag-pole is represented by a small dot,
• the straight main walkway is shown as a long thin strip,
• the rectangular basketball court is drawn to scale.
(i) Identify the most suitable geometric idealisation (point, line, or plane) for representing each of the three items mentioned above.
(ii) For each choice in part (i), explain why that geometric model is appropriate by referring to its dimensional properties.
(iii) The gardener initially tried to represent the entire basketball court as a line. Explain why this representation is inadequate.