SOLUTION: Brittany has a flower garden in the shape of a right triangle in her backyard. One leg of the triangle is 6 ft long and the hypotenuse is 10 ft long. What is the perimeter of Bri
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Question 1176757: Brittany has a flower garden in the shape of a right triangle in her backyard. One leg of the triangle is 6 ft long and the hypotenuse is 10 ft long. What is the perimeter of Brittany’s garden? Found 2 solutions by princessBelle, MathTherapy:Answer by princessBelle(3) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Because the triangle of the garden is a right triangle, the Pythagorean theorem can be used to solve the missing side.
(as usual c = the hypotenuse, I will set a = 6 ft and b = missing side)
Pythagorean theorem re-arrange the formula to fit the problem
Now that you have a, b and c. You can just add them together to get the perimeter.
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Brittany has a flower garden in the shape of a right triangle in her backyard. One leg of the triangle is 6 ft long and the hypotenuse is 10 ft long. What is the perimeter of Brittany’s garden?
This is a "CLASSIC" 3-4-5, times 2 Pytahgorean Triple.
So, sides are 2(3):2(4):2(5), or 6:8:10, resulting in perimeter of
