What is the actual distance between Saugerties and Kingston? Scale: 1 in= 2.5 mi. They are 4 in apart. What is the distance in m
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Recall that the diagonals of a rectangle bisect each other and are congruent, therefore:
Substituting the given expression for each segment in the first equation, we get:
Solving the above equation for x, we get:
Substituting x=10 in the equation for segment EI, we get:
Therefore:
Now, to determine the measure of angle IEH, we notice that:
therefore,
Using the facts that the triangles are right triangles and that the interior angles of a triangle add up to 180° we get: