Joel is laying a pip for a sprinkler system for his lawn.The lawn is a rectangle 15 ft long 8 ft wide. He needs to lay a piece of pipe that will run along the diagonle line. It will divide the area of the lawn into 2 right triangles. what would be the length of the diagonle piece of the pipe?
120 ft?
289 ft?
23 ft?
17 ft?
2006-07-28 12:23:09 · 4 answers · asked by hestsh 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
It's exactly 17 feet. You can use the pythagorean theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle (a^2 + b^2) = c^2 where a and b are the lengths of the two smaller sides and c is the length of the hypotenuse.
2006-07-28 14:28:02 · answer #1 · answered by Nathan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
17
2006-07-28 19:28:21 · answer #2 · answered by Beast from the East 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
17 ft ( 16 ft 10 " )
2006-07-28 19:32:23 · answer #3 · answered by mt92501 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hint: use the pythagorean thm.
2006-07-28 19:27:01 · answer #4 · answered by chance_calloway 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋