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A 100 m by 100 m square lot is divided into 5 parts of equal areas. One part is a square at the middle, while the other 4 parts are equal right triang
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A 100 m by 100 m square lot is divided into 5 parts of equal areas. One part is a square at the middle, while the other 4 parts are equal right triangles. Find the lengths of the sides of each triangular part. Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
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Each leg of the triangle has length 50m.
Using the Pythagorean theorem,
So the triangles have length, , , and .