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The lower base of the frustum shown is a square 8 ft on each side. The upper base is a square 4 ft on each side. If the altitude

is 6 ft, find the slant height.

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Lemur [1.5K]2 years ago

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The Slant height is 7.21

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Step-by-step explanation:

Because the length of ST is calculated using pythagorean theorem:

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Where the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of squares of the other two sides of a right triangle. In this case, the hypotenuse is ST and the other two sides are distances between S and T over the X and Y axis. Those are easily calculated:

$x = |sx - tx| \\ y = |sy - ty|$

Where x is the distance between S and T over X axis and Y distance over Y axis, sx and tx are X coordinates of S and T, sy and ty are Y coordinates of S and T.

Using that formula, you get that y = 17 and x = 8.

Back to the pythagorean theorem, if we put those number in the formula of the pythagorean theorem, we get something like this:

${c}^{2} = {x}^{2} + {y}^{2} \\ {c}^{2} = {8}^{2} + {17}^{2} = 64 + 289 \\ {c}^{2} = 353 \\ c = \sqrt{353}$

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