Emari Riley Howe
Cover letter
June 6th, 2018
1.
Yes, the honeycomb is an efficient shape for storing honey because
honeycombs are in the shape of hexagons. The sides of hexagons fit
together perfectly. If bees used other shapes like a circle it would
leave gaps. They could use squares and triangles, because there
wouldn’t be any gaps, however the hexagon proves to be the strongest
shape.
2.
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Side~6
Perimeter~360
Area~
9353ft
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3.
Rancher Gonzales wants to make the corral as big as possible with the
amount of fencing that he has to make his horses as happy as
possible.
4.
The fence of Rancher Gonzales helps us students compare different
kinds of regular polygons, using area and perimeter. This involves
bees because it proves how hexagons are the strongest and best
shapes.
5.
The volume of Rancher Gonzales prisms have to do with bees because,
the hexagon corrals are the same as the honeycomb where the bee
keeps its honey and pollen. The hexagon corral is the honeycomb but
in a bigger shape.
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- Spring '18
- Sedlock
- Trigonometry, Tessellation, Beekeeping, Regular polygon, Honey, Hexagon, Honeycomb
