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Real Estate Practice : Lesson 3951

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What would be the depth of a rectangular lot containing 1080 square yards with a frontage of 90 feet ?


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A. 108 square yards

First find out how many square yards equal 90 feet by dividing 9 (the total number of square feet in one square yard) into ninety to find ten square yards.
Now divide 10 square yards of frontage into 1080 square yards to find the total depth of 108 square yards.

Did you stretch your neck a bit answering this one :-) ?

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Comments(6)

Silvia Dukes PA, Broker Associate, CRS, CIPS, SRES
Tropic Shores Realty - Ich spreche Deutsch! - Spring Hill, FL
Florida Waterfront and Country Club Living

David, for sure this is one of those test questions that could easily trip you up! 

Feb 16, 2015 01:48 AM
David Saks
Memphis, TN
Broker / Industry Analyst

Es kann dazu führen, ein Tourette-Syndrom zu Flair auf, Silvia Dukes PA, REALTOR :-)

Feb 16, 2015 02:25 AM
Georgie Hunter R(S) 58089
Hawai'i Life Real Estate Brokers - Haiku, HI
Maui Real Estate sales and lifestyle info

It was so tricky that even you got it wrong! The answer is in linear yards, not square yards.

Feb 17, 2015 11:19 AM
David Saks
Memphis, TN
Broker / Industry Analyst

Wrong Georgie Hunter !!!

A linear yard is a straight one dimensional line that equals 36 inches.

A square yard is a measure of area and two dimensional.

If the yard was 90 by 90 linear feet the frontage would equal 8100 square feet. 9 feet occupy a square yard and if you divide 8100 by 9 you'd have an area of 900 square yards.

Since linear feet are only one dimensional and consider the frontage only, and not the two dimensional area of the rectangle, depth and width are the subject of the equation and two dimensional which consider the area in square yards which can't be expressed in linear terms.

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Feb 17, 2015 12:57 PM
Georgie Hunter R(S) 58089
Hawai'i Life Real Estate Brokers - Haiku, HI
Maui Real Estate sales and lifestyle info

But you asked "what would be the depth" of the lot. Therefore it would be a linear measurement.  Width x Depth = Area

I was good at math in school!

Feb 18, 2015 10:44 AM
David Saks
Memphis, TN
Broker / Industry Analyst

I have an engineering endorsement from IEEE. You're still wrong, Georgie Hunter . Linear is one dimensional. It involves a single dimension along one line. Not two dimensions consisting of width and depth that determine the area. It's a trick question that requires a conversion from the front footage divided into square yards and not square feet.

Feb 18, 2015 01:36 PM