SOLUTION: A handyman is installing a tile floor in a triangle shaped entry way. The length of each wall is 11.3 feet, 15.8 feet, and 14.7 feet. If the tile will cost $5.8 per square foot, ho
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Question 1199077: A handyman is installing a tile floor in a triangle shaped entry way. The length of each wall is 11.3 feet, 15.8 feet, and 14.7 feet. If the tile will cost $5.8 per square foot, how much will the new floor cost?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Find the area of the triangular floor using the Heron formula.
Then multiply the area by the price per square foot.
On the Heron's formula, see the lessons
- Proof of the Heron's formula for the area of a triangle
- One more proof of the Heron's formula for the area of a triangle
in this site.
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