Geometry is everywhere, look at any lake on any given weekend. The body of water is riddled with circular tubes, trapezoid inflatables to pull behind a boat, triangular jetski's, and rectangular pontoons. Naturally these shapes come in a variety of sizes, to accommodate a quantity of people.
A pontoon is a perfect example of a rectangular device. Depending on the people you wish to keep afloat, the size of the pontoon must vary. If you take, for example, a party of 8 people going out onto the lake to enjoy a warm sunny day, the pontoon will naturally have to be bigger than one made for only 4 people.
The beautiful thing about geometry is that we can use this to help us find how big a pontoon needs to be for 8 people. If we take the length of the pontoon times the width of the pontoon, we would then find the approximate area of the boat in which to fit people.
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