Question

Jeremiah uses bamboo rods to make the frame of a tailless kite. He ties three bamboo rods together to form a right triangle PQR. He then ties another rod from P that meets RQ at a right angle. Segment PS in the figure below represents this rod and it is 10 inches long.

Answer 1

okay, what's the question?

Answer 2

Which of the following could be the lengths of segments QS and SR?

Answer 3

\[\frac{QS}{10}=\frac{10}{SR}\]

Answer 4

The altitude is the geometric mean between the segments of the hypotenuse.

Answer 5

so QS =10 and SR=90?

Answer 6

So any pair whose product is 100 will work.

Answer 7

\[(QS)(SR)=100\]

Answer 8

ok thanks for your help

Answer 9

yw. Did you find an answer?

Answer 10

yes

Answer 11

Good.