SOLUTION: During the summer heat a 2-mi bridge expands 2ft in length. If we assume that the bulge occurs in the middle, How high is the bulge?
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! During the summer heat a 2-mi bridge expands 2ft in length. If we assume that the bulge occurs in the middle, How high is the bulge?
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this forms two right triangles where:
a = height of the bulge
b = 1 mi; half the length of the unexpanded bridge
c = 1 mi + 1 ft; half the length of the expanded bridge (hypotenuse}
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Convert everything to feet
b = 5280 ft
c = 5281 ft
:
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
a^2 + 5280^2 = 5281^2
a^2 = 5281^2 - 5280^2
a =
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a = 102.7 ft, seems like an awful lot, but there it is.
