estimate this acerage please

2.5' per pace (normally 3' for a 6' man but these are in snow and down/up hill)

500' x 3750' x 625' x 3750' = 1.875m sq ft + 469,000 sq ft = 2.343m sq ft = 53.9 acres

This assume a rectangle 500' x 3750' with a triangle on one end so it isn't 100% accurate. From the pic, it doesn't look quite like 50 acres.

R

I'm guessing 12 to 15 acres

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You on a big hill? Kinda of a lazy pace or a real aggressive pace?

Ok I figured each pace 3',took 225X1500,divided by 4840,came up with 69,closer to 70.

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please;

It's a trapezoid:

(200 paces + 250 paces)/2 = 225 paces = average of two sides

225 paces x 2.5 feet/pace = 562.5 feet

1500 paces x 2.5 feet/pace = 3,750 feet

Area = length x width (average of two sides for this type of a trapezoid)

= 3,750 feet x 562.5 feet = 2,109,000 square feet

Area expressed in acres = 2,109,000 square feet / 43,560 square feet/ acre

= 48.42 acres


There is no other correct answer to this question, if crwilson's pace is 2.5 feet in snow. There are many other ways to arrive at this correct answer, but no other correct answers, this is the only one.

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First, cw, I am not going to get into the length of your stride because that is between you and a tape measure. What I did was, I walked across the kitchen floor using the same type of paces and then I measured them. My pace is 1 1/2 feet (I am short).

The quick and easy estimation would be 400 X 1500 paces, plus 50 X 1500 paces, and minus JUST a snitch, but lets see if we can do things more officially.

What you do is, you draw your diagram and mark off the square in the middle. That leaves you with 2 right angle triangles with a longest side of 1500 paces and a short side of 50 paces. With a right angle A squared + B squared = C squared, so that is 250 + B squared = 2,250,000 paces.

B squared =1499.7 paces.

1499.7 paces X 50 divided by 2 (since a triangle has half the area of a rectangle)=37,492.5 square paces.

Since you have 2 triangles, one on each side of the rectangle, you would have the area of the rectangle + 74985.

That leaves you with you a rectangle of 400 paces by1499.7 paces. Or, 599,880 square paces.

2 triangles (74985 for the 2) + 599,880 (for the rectangle) gives you 674870 square paces.

Now, the BAD part is, you cannot just measure your pace and multiply it by the area in square paces. Sorry about that. If your stride is 3' long you will have twice as much area as if your stride is 2' long.

LOL, this thread is hilarious!

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I know with my place it is 20 acres measured 660'X1,320'.I stepped it off ,then had it surveyed I was off 8'.

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What size shoe do you wear?

I think the shoe size is important too and ... are you right or left handed? It would also be good to know if the snow was the same depth all along the walk or was it thinner in some places? If you slipped at all while walking ... that too would make your paces shorter in places.
SO ... I guess you have somewhere between 8 and 70 acres ...
You should ask your Dad how much he is going to let you get ... then walk it off with him
It looks like a nice place though .... the pond will be great.

Interesting math lesson, but did I miss something?
Did you give a guess yet? :haha:

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With a stride that is anywhere from 2' to 3' long? I cannot BEGIN to guess, cause a 3' stride will give you somewhere around twice as much area as a 2' stride!

(Try it and see. 2' by 2' has an area of 4 square feet, while 3' by 3' has an area of 9 square feet).

Nope, crwilson will have to do the math himself once he finds out how long a stride is. I cannot begin to guess. :haha: We are talking anywhere from around 50 acres to around 100.

Personally, I suspect that in the snow his stride was closer to 2' long, and that he is looking at closer to 50 than 100. But, without knowing the length of his stride I really have NO! idea! :haha:

Wow.... that is way over my guess of 12 to 15 acres.
It would be interesting to know exactly what it is.

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well thanks to everyones input, sory for not providing you with better information earlier, but it was fun also to see eveyones guesses.. So today to solve the problem and be alot more accurate i took a piece of rope 70 feet long and strong it across the field. it reached 8 widths at one end and 7.5 at the other.. as well as 20 down the center of the field.

so im guessing 16.6 acres as a low estimate. Its funny how bad i did the pacing the first time to get such outrageous numbers, i guess it was because of the rough terain in areas and the deeper snow..

thanks for all your input

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Alex has used the correct math and conversionf actors for this question. What you might want to do to make the answer somewhat more accurate is to measure out 100 feet and then pace off the number of steps it takes to travel that 100 feet.

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