Question

Your dad says you can have a new puppy if you build the dog house. Before building, you need to determine the dimensions. Choose the dimensions of the base, the length, and the width of the dog house. Choose dimensions that you think are reasonable for whatever type of puppy you would get. Once you plan the base and walls, you need to decide on the height of the roof (represented by the dotted line in the image below). The roof is a triangle with two sides that are the same length.
Find the height of the roof using the dimensions you chose. You are hoping to put shingles on the roof and need to know what the square footage of the roof will be. Use the dimensions to calculate the area of the roof.

Hint: Remember to find the area of the entire roof.

Answer 1

Answer is 12 sq feet
Step by step
Roof is 36” x 24” which is 3’ x 2’
So 3 x 2 = 6 multiplied by 2 sides of roof
Total is 12 sq feet
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I made the roof peak with a 3” overhang over the entrance
I made the roof overhang the sides with 4”
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So to find the hypotenuse (diagonal of the roof) I used the Pythagorean theorem.
a^2 + b^2 = c ^2
15^2 + 13^2 = c^2
394 = c^2
Take square root of both sides
C= 19.8 rounded to 20
I then added 4” overhang to each side for total diagonal of 24”