Question

You are assembling a swing for a playground. The horizontal crossbar that attaches at the midpoint of each pair of legs is 28 inches long. Assuming that the crossbars are parallel to the ground, how far apart will the bottoms of the legs of the swing be when the swing is completely assembled?

Answer 1

ok this question is a bit hard to understand but I think this is the idea for the swing

Answer 2

according to the triangle midsegment theorem, when there is a segment drawn between the midpoints of two sides of a triangle, that is also parallel to the third side, then the first segment is 1/2 the length of the third side

in our example, the blue segment is 1/2 of the green segment

using the information from the problem + the triangle midsegment theorem, it should be clear what the length of the green segment is

Answer 3

but how many inches would that be

Answer 4

well, the problem says that the crossbar is 28 inches, right?

and according to the theorem, the distance between the legs is twice the crossbar

so the distance between the legs = ?

Answer 5

it's just a simple multiplication problem

Answer 6

oooooo thank ya