SOLUTION: A garden measures 72 feet by 54 feet, and the owner of the garden wishes to divide the garden into two parts by installing a fence from corner to corner. Find the cost of the total

Question 1190582: A garden measures 72 feet by 54 feet, and the owner of the garden wishes to divide the garden into two parts by installing a fence from corner to corner. Find the cost of the total length of fence if the fence costs $ 3.14 per foot.

Answer by ikleyn(52877) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The diagonal is the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle with the legs of the given lengths.

Use the Pythagorean formula to find the diagonal.

Then multiply the cost of one feet fence by the length of the diagonal.

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