SOLUTION: In the Old West, settlers often fashioned tents out of a piece of cloth grown over tent poles and then secured to the ground with stakes forming an isosceles triangle. How long wou
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Question 38491: In the Old West, settlers often fashioned tents out of a piece of cloth grown over tent poles and then secured to the ground with stakes forming an isosceles triangle. How long would the cloth have to be so that the opening of the tent was 4 meters high and 3 meters wide?
Answer by checkley71(8403) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
ONE SIDE OF THE TENT WOULD BE SQRT4~2+2~2 OR SQRT16+4=SQRT20 OR4.47 METERSTHUS
THE TOTAL LENGTH OF THE CLOTH IS 2*4.47 OR 8.944 METERS.
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