SOLUTION: Chief SOHCAHTOA decided his cone-shaped teepee needed to be 7 feet tall. He wanted his teepee to have a diameter of 12 feet. How long does he need to make the sides of his teepee.

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Question 99286: Chief SOHCAHTOA decided his cone-shaped teepee needed to be 7 feet tall. He wanted his teepee to have a diameter of 12 feet. How long does he need to make the sides of his teepee.
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Chief SOHCAHTOA decided his cone-shaped teepee needed to be 7 feet tall. He wanted his teepee to have a diameter of 12 feet. How long does he need to make the sides of his teepee.
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Draw a vertical slice of the teepee as a right triangle with base of 6 and
height of 12. Find the hypotenuse using Pythagoras.
hy^2 = 6^2 + 12^2
h^2 = 36 + 144
h^2 = 180
h = 6sqrt(5) ft
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Cheers,
Stan H.