Question

My sailboat has a triangular sail that forms a right triangle. The bottom measures 9 yards and it stretches to the top of the mast. The hypotenuse measures 15 yards. How tall is the sail?

Answer 1

Your sail looks like this:

Answer 2

Your job is to use Pythagorean's theorem to find the missing side. Do you know how to do that?

Answer 3

a sq+ b sq= c sq

Answer 4

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Answer 5

a=9 b=4 c=13? @IMStuck

Answer 6

Sorry, I'm here now.

Answer 7

\[15^{2}-9^{2}=b ^{2}\]\[225-81=144\]So b is 12. The height is 12