Can anybody answer this question?

Check it out, boys.....

Who can give me the correct square footage of a piece of land with the following dimensions:

A rectangular lot of land.

221.30' and 230.30' on either side.
163.06' and 100.00' at either end.


Can anybody tell me the exact square footage of that?

mighty_colts wrote:Check it out, boys.....

Who can give me the correct square footage of a piece of land with the following dimensions:

A rectangular lot of land.

221.30' and 230.30' on either side.
163.06' and 100.00' at either end.


Can anybody tell me the exact square footage of that?

My Lord man!!! Was the surveyer drunk or just dumb? LOL
There's a formula for calculating the area of a lot like that.. You take the length x the width and then there is a divisor thats standard for it.. I'd have to look it up because I haven't come across something that odd in a while... I don't know why they do that when the survey, it really causes problems down the road for the land owners and causes property disputes like you wouldn't beleive..!!!

ha ha ha.....the land was staked out in 1977. I think we were still fighting the Indians back then

Didn't Arizona become a state in 1998?

As a matter of fact, if you walk around the property, you can still find indian arrows and calvary horse tracks on the ground. Yessiree.....that lot of land was surveyed a loooooong time ago, back when the nation was young and expanding, lol

I stumped ya, eh?

Well, here's what I found out:

The dimensions of that property create what is called an Irregular Polygon. It's difficult to get the exact square footage with one of those, but to get a close estimate you create two triangles out of the polygon that form something close to a rectangle. You then multiply the base and leading edge of each triangle, and then take the average of the two. This is the approx. square footage.

Therefore:

221.30' x 163.06' = 36085.178
230.30 x 100.00' = 23030

Now add 36085.178 and 23030 = 59115.178

Divide by 2 = 29557.589

So that lot of land is approx. 29,557.589 square feet.




Damn......I should go back to school and score my PhD in converted translinear mathematics