SOLUTION: Maria is planting a flower garden. Her garden will be shaped like a right triangle. She is going to plant different types of flowers along each edge. The two shorter edges a re 1

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Question 895464: Maria is planting a flower garden. Her garden will be shaped like a right triangle. She is
going to plant different types of flowers along each edge. The two shorter edges a
re 15
feet and 15 feet. How long is the other edge? What is the total amount of fencing that
Maria needs to buy to place a fence along each edge?

Answer by thesvw(77)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If it's a right angled triangle ... You can easily apply the pythogarus theorem.
Where 'c' is the hypotenus






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