Complete Question:
Kyle held a balloon 8 feet off the ground, straight above his head. Ava is standing 15 feet directly to the right of Kyle.
Write an equation using the Pythagorean Theorem to find the value of x.
How far are Ava's feet from the balloon?
Answer:
Ava's feet is 17ft away from the balloon
Step-by-step explanation:
Given
The attached image represents the scenario
Using Pythagoras theorem (from the attachment), we have:
Take square roots of both sides
Answer: 0.364
The reason that it would be 0.364 is because the thousandths place is the third decimal place, which would leave you with a 3 but since there is a 6 after the 3, the 3 would be rounded up to a 4.
Answer:
D. 11.8 cm
Step-by-step explanation:
This triangle is a 30°-60°-90° triangle. There is a shortcut to find the lengths of the sides of a 30°-60°-90° triangle. The longest side is the hypotenuse. The longest side is double the shortest side or, the shortest side is half the longest side. Here the longest side is 5, so the short leg (shortest side) is 2.5
The other shortcut is that the longer leg is the
short leg×sqroot3
Here, the short leg is 2.5, so the long leg is 2.5×sqroot3
Perimeter is all the sides added together.
5 + 2.5+ 2.5×sqrt3
Do the times first.
5 + 2.5 + 4.3
= 11.8
The second option is the right one
