SOLUTION: One airport has a ramp sloping down from the passenger waiting area to the plane. If the distance from the waiting area to the plane is 43 feet and the height from the ground to th

Question 1162713: One airport has a ramp sloping down from the passenger waiting area to the plane. If the distance from the waiting area to the plane is 43 feet and the height from the ground to the waiting area is 4
feet, how long is the ramp?
A) 6.9 ft
B) 5.7 ft
C) 43.2 ft
D) 42.8 ft
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The ramp is the hypotenuse of the triangle with legs 4 feet and 43 feet
square each and add=16+1849=1865
take the square root of 1865=43.19 feet
C
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