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

Part A: Patricia 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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Patricia has a lawn, ABCD. She has placed a watering hose, BD, as shown below.
  

 
Part A: Patricia 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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anonymous · Answer

Triangle B.C.D is a right triangle with legs 30 and 16. Using the Pythagorean theorem To find the hypotenuse BD of the triangle. That hypotenu
se BD is the longest leg of the 30-60-90 right triangle BDA. AD is the shortest leg of that triangle. The shortest leg of a 30-60-90 triangle can be found by dividing the longest leg by the square root of 3

anonymous · Answer

I know I need the actual calculations for this one...

anonymous · Answer

Anybody? This one has me confused!