SOLUTION: Solve the following problems applying the appropriate special right triangle theorem. 1. You need as a square shaped plastic cover to be installed in front of your store as protec

Question 1181168: Solve the following problems applying the appropriate special right triangle theorem.
1. You need as a square shaped plastic cover to be installed in front of your store as protection from COVID-19. If the length of the diagonal of your store window measure 2.8 meters, about how many square meters of plastic cover would you need?
2. Alas! There's a new shape of a pizza! It's a triangular in shape where each side measure 12 inches long. If you cut it into two equal parts, what must be the length of the edge where the pizza is sliced?@
Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, mananth:
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

1. The diagonal of a square is the side length times the square root of 2, which is about 1.414. Since the problem says the diagonal of the window is "about" 2.8m, the side length of the window is about 2.8/1.4 = 2m. So you need about 2*2=4 square meters of plastic cover.

2. The problem is not defined well enough. There are an infinite number of ways you could cut a pizza in the shape of an equilateral triangle into two pieces of equal area with a single straight cut.

Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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