The picture below shows the location of Tim, Kathy, Joe, and Brenda’s houses near a community hall. The shaded triangle has an area of 400 square feet. The road connecting Tim and Brenda’s houses is bisected by the road connecting Joe and Kathy’s houses, as shown below.

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anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

What is the length of the road between Joe and Brenda’s houses?

phi · Answer

what do those hash marks on the lines mean?

anonymous · Answer

they're diff sizes

phi · Answer

If two lines both have a single hash mark, what does that mean?

anonymous · Answer

they're the same size

phi · Answer

so you know two sides of the triangle are equal
what about the angle in between?
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