SOLUTION: The gable end of the roof shown is divided in half by a vertical brace. Find the vertical distance h (in ft) from an eave to the peak.
48 ft 25 ft
A side view of a building is
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48 ft 25 ft
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Question 1177239: The gable end of the roof shown is divided in half by a vertical brace. Find the vertical distance h (in ft) from an eave to the peak.
48 ft 25 ft
A side view of a building is given. A triangle is shown on the building.
The left side of the roof goes up and right and is labeled 25 ft.
The left side of the roof meets the right side of the roof at the top of the building. The right side of the roof goes down and right, and ends at the same height as where the left side started.
A horizontal line connects the beginning point of the left side of the roof to the end point of the right the side roof. It is labeled 48 ft and forms a triangle with the roof.
A dashed line labeled h starts at the top of the building and goes vertically down to meet to the horizontal line at a right angle.
According to your description of the drawing, one part of the roofline forms the hypotenuse of a right triangle where one leg is one-half of the horizontal distance from eave to eave (namely 24 feet), and the other leg is the desired distance . Use Pythagoras to calculate the desired distance or look up a Pythagorean triple with 25 and 24 as two of the numbers.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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