Question

Veronica has a lawn, ABCD. She has placed a watering hose, BD, as shown below.



Part A: Veronica 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.

Answer 1

@Nali

Answer 2

ok ur problem has two parts to solve part A

Answer 3

first find the lenght of BD using the pathorgrean formula
do u know it ?

Answer 4

yes a^2+b^2=c^2

Answer 5

ok so find BD and tell me what u get ?

Answer 6

c^2=1225

Answer 7

ok take the squarerrot of it to fin BD

Answer 8

35

Answer 9

ok

Answer 10

do the same thing as before

what would se to solve for AD sin or cos

Answer 11

and remember what would they equal like opp/hyp

Answer 12

sin?

Answer 13

did u learn about tan yet?

Answer 14

yes thats opp/adj

Answer 15

ok good
so in this case since we do not know what the hypostenuse is

as a result, we use tan

Answer 16

so how would set it up?

Answer 17

tan 60=35/x and then just solve for x