SOLUTION: Please help me solve this: A 100 m by 100 m square lot is divided into 5 parts of equal areas. One part is a square at the middle, while the other 4 parts are equal right triang

Question 936390: Please help me solve this:
A 100 m by 100 m square lot is divided into 5 parts of equal areas. One part is a square at the middle, while the other 4 parts are equal right triangles. Find the lengths of the sides of each triangular part.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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Each leg of the triangle has length 50m.
Using the Pythagorean theorem,

So the triangles have length, , , and .
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