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. How long should the pieces of PVC plumbing pipe be?

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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. How long should the pieces of PVC plumbing pipe be?

anonymous · Answer

10 feet.

anonymous · Answer

can you show me how you did the work?

anonymous · Answer

well the distance across is 12. so the radius is 6. Its 8 feet tall. You're left with a right triangle missing the hypotenuse length. do a2 +b2 = c2
(pythagorean theorem)

anonymous · Answer

thank you