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.
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OpenStudy (anonymous):
@Nali
OpenStudy (nali):
ok ur problem has two parts to solve part A
OpenStudy (nali):
first find the lenght of BD using the pathorgrean formula
do u know it ?
OpenStudy (anonymous):
yes a^2+b^2=c^2
OpenStudy (nali):
ok so find BD and tell me what u get ?
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OpenStudy (anonymous):
c^2=1225
OpenStudy (nali):
ok take the squarerrot of it to fin BD
OpenStudy (anonymous):
35
OpenStudy (nali):
ok
OpenStudy (nali):
do the same thing as before
what would se to solve for AD sin or cos
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OpenStudy (nali):
and remember what would they equal like opp/hyp
OpenStudy (anonymous):
sin?
OpenStudy (nali):
did u learn about tan yet?
OpenStudy (anonymous):
yes thats opp/adj
OpenStudy (nali):
ok good
so in this case since we do not know what the hypostenuse is
as a result, we use tan
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