Real-Life Math
As a production supervisor, you need to know how to read plans,
blueprints and technical drawings. You need to check and recheck to make sure
a product coming off the line is correct in its dimensions.
You work
for a company that makes modular buildings. Before the line crew moves on
to the next step in putting together a particular building, you inspect their
work to make sure the components have been installed using the correct measurements.
The
center of the interior wall has been placed 7 feet, 2.25 inches from the outside
edge of the exterior wall. You have to determine whether the wall has been
placed correctly, based on the following dimensions:
Next to the interior
wall, you have a sink in a cabinet that is 3 feet wide. Next to the cabinet
is a toilet. To be handicapped accessible, the measurement from the edge of
the cabinet to the center of the toilet must be 36 inches. There should be
18 inches from the center of the toilet to the inside edge of the exterior
wall. The drywall is 0.5 inch thick and the exterior stud wall is another
5.5 inches wide.
The interior wall consists of a 0.5 inch thick drywall
sheet on each side of a wood stud wall 3.5 inches thick.
Will everything
fit with the interior wall in its current position?