Question

A garden measures 77 feet by 36 feet, and the owner of the garden wishes to divide the garden into two parts by installing a fence from corner to corner. Find the cost of the total length of fence if the fence costs $ 3.87 per foot.

Answer 1

Answer:

  $328.95

Step-by-step explanation:

By the Pythagorean theorem, the diagonal of the garden has a length that is the root of the sum of the squares of the side lengths:

  d = √(77² +36²) = √7225 = 85

Then the cost of the fence is the product of this number of feet and the cost per foot:

  (85 ft)·($3.87/ft) = $328.95