SOLUTION: 4. A customer wants to make a teepee in his backyard for his children. He plans to use lengths of PVC plumbing pipe for the supports on the teepee, and he wants the teepee to be 12
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Question 209998: 4. A customer wants to make a teepee in his backyard for his children. He plans to use lengths of PVC plumbing pipe for the supports on the teepee, and he wants the teepee to be 12 feet across and 8 feet tall (see figure). How long should the pieces of PVC plumbing pipe be?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You have a right triangle with one side=8ft. the other side=12/2 or 6 ft.
The poles are the hypotenuse of the triangle.
8^2+6^2=c^2
64+36=c^2
c^2=100
c=sqrt100
c=10 ft. is the length of the poles.
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