Angelina has a lawn, ABCD. She has placed a watering hose, BD, as shown below. Part A: Angelina plans to put a fence along the length AD of her lawn. What is the length of the fence required? Part B: Using complete sentences, explain how you arrived at the answer for Part A.

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Angelina has a lawn, ABCD. She has placed a watering hose, BD, as shown below.      Part A: Angelina plans to put a fence along the length AD of her lawn. What is the length of the fence required?  Part B: Using complete sentences, explain how you arrived at the answer for Part A.

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

Please help me out, i really need help on it i'm stock!!

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

Use the pythagorean theorem to find the length of BD


Then use the formula


tan(60) = BD/AD


plug in the length of BD and solve for AD to find your answer.

anonymous · Answer

ok thanks i got the result of 21.3 is it right??

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

You're very very close. I'm getting 21.361959

If you round to the nearest tenth, you get 21.4

anonymous · Answer

ok thanks  a lot!

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

sure thing