A typical windmill has three blades. We can envision these blades in a circle, which a circle = 360 degrees. We want to divide up the angles of the blades so they are even or makes up 360 degrees. We have three blades so we have 3 angles to divide by 360 degrees. So, 360 / 3 = 120 degrees. Now that we know the angle of the blades, we can use the Law of Cos to solve the distance between the blade tip.
Law of Cos
We know
a = 20
b = 20
A = Angle = 120
We need to solve for c
Take the square root of each side of the =
Input the values we know into the formula and solve for c:
We now have our answer, which is 34.64 and that is C.
Answer:
r=8
Step-by-step explanation:
Using the formula they gave us you could plug in the area (64) and divide it by pi which cancels out the pi so taking the square root of 64 gives you 8FT
Hope this helps :)
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Type Your Question Go!!! Answer by jim_thompson5910(34119) About Me (Show Source):You can put this solution on YOUR website!I'm assuming that the triangle is a right triangle and that side 3 is the hypotenuse.
We basically have this triangle set up:
Since we can see that the triangle has legs of 8 and x with a hypotenuse of 12, we can use Pythagoreans theorem to find the unknown side.
Pythagoreans theorem:
a%5E2%2Bb%5E2=c%5E2 where a and b are the legs of the triangle and c is the hypotenuse
8%5E2%2Bx%5E2=12%5E2 Plug in a=8, b=x, and c=12. Now lets solve for x
6+4+%2B++x++%5E+2+=+1+4+4 Square each individual term
+x++%5E+2+=+1+4+4+-+6+4 Subtract 64 from both sides
+x++%5E+2+=+8+0 Combine like terms
s+q+r+t+%28++x++%5E+2+%29+=+s+q+r+t+%28+8+0+%29 Take the square root of both sides
x=4%2Asqrt%285%29 Simplify the square root
Which approximates to... x+=+8+.+9+4+4+2+7+1+9+0+9+9+9+9+1+6
So our answer is x+=+8+.+9+4+4+2+7+1+9+0+9+9+9+9+1+6....
