reply to the Mariah's post 1. Simplify your peers sentences. Sharpen their approach 2. Suggest ways to Modify their analysis or instances of their use of course material. Calculating area or perimeter of objects or fields of interest in your everyday life. Calculating the area or perimeter of an object is something that many of us do in our daily lives and jobs. You could be an architect that needs to calculate the area of a space or structure or a work from home employee that is trying to figure out if their new desk will fit in their tiny office space. Personally, I work from home, and I just purchased a standing desk to encourage myself to stand more during my 8-hour workday. When purchasing the desk online, I needed to calculate the area of the desk to ensure that it would fit in my office at home. The dimensions of the desk were 4 feet by 1.5 feet, so I multiplied those two units to get 6 as the area. Illustrate use of similar triangles. Similar triangles have the same shape but not necessarily the same size. The corresponding angles of the triangle are equal and their