SOLUTION: Suppose your house is on a large corner lot. The children in the neighborhood cut across your lawn, along a distance of 43 ft.
a) Find x if 2 sides of the lawn are 3x and 4x.
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Question 531566: Suppose your house is on a large corner lot. The children in the neighborhood cut across your lawn, along a distance of 43 ft.
a) Find x if 2 sides of the lawn are 3x and 4x.
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Answer by unlockmath(1688) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hello,
We can set this up as:
(3x)^2 + (4x)^2 = 43^2
Rewritten as:
9x^2 + 16x^2 = 1849
Simplify
25x^2=1849
Divide by 25 to get:
x^2 = 73.96
Square root both sides to get:
x=8.6 feet
Now we know one side is 25.8 feet and the other is 34.4 feet
Make sense?
RJ
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