SOLUTION: how would find the surface area of a roof it it looked like this...( triangle with right angle in center)
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Question 609851: how would find the surface area of a roof it it looked like this...( triangle with right angle in center)
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what i know is that you need to find all of the sides, but not the bottom... im not sure if this is the net, or if its a square on the bottom
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The area of a triangle is
Call the horizontal part of the roof
The vertical line from the center of
to the top of the roof is .
So, the area of the roof is the sum
Remember that is 1/2 of the
horizontal part of the roof because I
said the whole horizontal part was
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