A man places a mirror on the ground and sees the reflection of the top of a flagpole as shown in the figure below. The two trian
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Answer:
Both legs would be 20
Step-by-step explanation:
In the image below, it shows the relationship between the legs and the hypotenuse in every 45 45 90 triangle. If we know that the hypotenuse is 20, then the 2 legs are both 20.
I am slightly confused with the problem since they asked for the "short" leg and the "long" leg. Both legs should be the same length because a 45 45 90 triangle is isosceles, with the two legs being the same length.
Answer:
Presumably you're solving for x here? Without further information we'll assume that.
With that in mind, x is approximately equal to 0.86 and -0.46
Step-by-step explanation:
Let's start by putting it in the usual ax² + bx + c format.
let's solve it. First we'll multiply both sides by five, making the first term a perfect square:
Now we'll add 11 to both sides:
Which makes the left side a perfect square:
And now we can solve for x:
Note that there's no apparent way of drawing the ± symbol when editing equations, so take that + sign as actually being ±.
That gives us two answers: