SOLUTION: Elliott street is 24ft wide when it ends at main street in brattleboro, vermont, a 40 ft long diagonal crosswalk allows pedestrians to cross main street to or from either corner o

Question 714769: Elliott street is 24ft wide when it ends at main street in brattleboro, vermont, a 40 ft long diagonal crosswalk allows pedestrians to cross main street to or from either corner of elliott street. determine the width of main street
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Elliott street is 24ft wide when it ends at main street in brattleboro, vermont, a 40 ft long diagonal crosswalk allows pedestrians to cross main street to or from either corner of elliott street. determine the width of main street
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Let m = the width of Main street
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draw this out marking the width of Elliot as 24 and the width of Main as m
The diagonal, the distance to opposite corners, is 40
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Find the angle (A) enclosed by the diagonal (40) and the width of Elliot (24)
Use the cosine for this
Cos(A) =
A = 53.13 degrees
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Find the width of Main street using the sine of this angle
Sin(53.13) =
.8 =
m = .8 * 40
m = 32 ft is the width of main street
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Another way to solve it: Use Pythagoras.
Pythagoras says -->
That can be calculated many different ways,
with more or less difficulty,
using pencil and paper, or a calculator.

However, mental math is easy if we think of similar (scaled up or down) right triangles.
The numbers 3, 4, and 5 form the most popular of Pythagorean triples,
sets of three positive integers that satisfy the Pythagorean equation,
and can be the lengths of the sides of a right triangle.
Triangles with sides measuring 3, 4, and 5
(and scaled-up versions) are used a lot in math problems.
The right triangle in this problem is similar to all 3-4-5 right triangles
(right triangles whose sides' lengths are in the ratio 3:4:5).
This triangle's known side lengths (in feet) are and .
The missing side length should be feet.

The harder ways to the calculation:
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