SOLUTION: A boy walks 150ft diagonally across a vacant lot. If one edge of the lot is 95ft long, how long is the other edge? Assume the lot is rectangular.
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Question 1042411: A boy walks 150ft diagonally across a vacant lot. If one edge of the lot is 95ft long, how long is the other edge? Assume the lot is rectangular. Answer by chen.aavaz(62) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! This is Pythagorean theorem.
The diagonal is the hypotenuse of an orthogonal triangle, whose one side is 95ft and we are asking for the second side (the other edge).
Therefore if the second side is x, we have:
So the other edge is 116.08 ft long.
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