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Help! How to measure bay window square footage?

5 years ago

Hello! I'm not good at math and this is making my head hurt. Help!


I need to break up a 25 foot continuous wall per zoning with a bay window. I need to make the bay window as long as possible BUT the bump out cannot be more than 15 square feet and has to be 2 feet deep to break the 25 foot continuous wall per zoning..


I am trying to figure out how long I can make a bay window that fits within these parameters.

The bay window pictured below has two 2' side windows and one large 6'2" window. Normally I'd just multiply 6x2 (b/c the sq footage is from the interior measurements, right?) But here the 2 side windows are angled..


I found this online when trying to do myself:

Area of a rectangle or square: width x depth

Area of any triangle: width x half the depth


So does that mean this bay window is 16 square feet?


How can I figure out how long I can make it to get it as close to 15 square feet as possible without going over?




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