SOLUTION: Jessica wants to build a tool shed in her backyard but is only using the area beyond the path running through the yard. How large would the shed be it is triangular-shaped with sid

Question 1034780: Jessica wants to build a tool shed in her backyard but is only using the area beyond the path running through the yard. How large would the shed be it is triangular-shaped with sides of length 8 feet, 15 feet, and 20 feet
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the sides:

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Call the perpendicular from
the junction of and
to side
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divides into
and
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and

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Plug in the numbers

and

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Let area =

The area is 53.2 ft2
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Definitely get another opinion on this
if you can -I could easily have messed up
the calculations
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