Higher January 2021 Paper 1R Q10

EdexcelHigherCurrent spec5 marks2D Area & PerimeterPythagoras

10 The diagram shows one face of a wall.
This face is in the shape of a pentagon with exactly one line of symmetry.

Pentagon made of a 10 m by 6 m rectangle with an isosceles triangle on top whose equal sides are 7 m

Diagram NOT accurately drawn

Omondi is going to paint this face of the wall once.
He has to buy all the paint that he needs to use.

The paint in each tin of paint Omondi is going to buy will cover 16 m2 of the face of the wall.

Work out the least number of tins of paint Omondi will need to buy.
Show your working clearly.

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