SOLUTION: Jan is making a rectangular garden
that is 10 feet long. She wants to install a
15-foot pipe diagonally across the garden.
How wide should she make her garden?
Find the exact,
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Question 1059149: Jan is making a rectangular garden
that is 10 feet long. She wants to install a
15-foot pipe diagonally across the garden.
How wide should she make her garden?
Find the exact, simplified width AND
approximate to 2 decimal places.
Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The diagonal pipe divides the rectangle into two identical right triangles. Thus, we use the Pythagorean Theorem:
10^2+x^2 = 15^2
100+x^2 = 225
x^2 = 225-100
x^2 = 125
x = 11.18 this is how wide she should make the garden
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John
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