document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=271106>Question 271106</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A flower bed in the shape of a right triangle is to be made in the corner of a yard, with sides 15 feet and 20 feet.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "a) The label the fertilizer I plan to use for the flower bed says to use 2 cups for each 100 square feet. How much will I need? The answer I got was 6 cups.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "b) I want to add 6 inches of topsoil on the flower bed, which comes in bags that hold 2 cubic feet each. How many bags will I need?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "c)How many feet of fencing will be needed to completly surround the flower bed? <BR>\n" );
document.write( "The answer I got was 145ft.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Please help me with the (B) question and correct (A and C) if I got those wrong. Thanks so much.  </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "A:  The area of a triangle is given by\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ A\ =\ \frac{bh}{2}\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "where <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large b\"> is the measure of the base and <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large h\"> is the measure of the height (aka altitude).  In a right triangle, the base and height are the same as the legs of the triangle.  So in your case:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ A\ =\ \frac{15\,\cdot\,20}{2}\ =\ \frac{300}{2}\ =\ 150\text{ ft^2 }\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Then\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \frac{x\text{ cups }}{2\text{ cups }}\ =\ \frac{150}{100}\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 100x\ =\ 2\,\cdot\,150\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ x\ =\ 3\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "B: From part A, the area is 150 ft².  If you want the topsoil to be 6 inches deep, you use one-half cubic foot for every square foot of area.  Or 75 cubic feet for the entire 150 ft² garden.  75 divided by 2 is 37.5, so you need 38 bags of soil unless you can get someone to sell you half a bag.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "C:  The perimeter is just the sum of the measures of the sides.  15 is to 20 as 3 is to 4, so this is actually a 3-4-5 right triangle, and the hypotenuse is 25.  (if you want to check this, use Pythagoras: <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large hyp\ =\ \sqrt{15^2\ +\ 20^2}\">)  The perimeter is then 15 + 20 + 25 = 65 feet.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
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