Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
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The height of the kite is 4.89 feet
Explanation
The length of the line attached to the kite=7 feet
The length of the shadow that is cast on the ground=5 feet
the system forms a right angled triangle where the taught string of the kite is the hypotenuse, the shadow is the base and the height of the kite above the ground is the height.
H=7 feet
b=5 feet
using pythagoras theorem
The kite is 4.89 feet above the ground
The estimated lengths are 12in. and 5 in. This would be an estimated difference of 7in.
The estimated difference is going to be higher than the actual difference because in rounding 11.7 to 12, you are losing .30in, but in rounding down 5.25 to 5, you are actually gaining .75in.
The ACTUAL difference is 6.45in
Not sure why such an old question is showing up on my feed...
Anyway, let
and
. Then we want to find the exact value of
.
Use the angle difference identity:
and right away we find
. By the Pythagorean theorem, we also find
. (Actually, this could potentially be negative, but let's assume all angles are in the first quadrant for convenience.)
Meanwhile, if
, then (by Pythagorean theorem)
, so
. And from this,
.
So,
The area is 76 ft squared, and the perimeter is 43.1 ft. CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG BECAUSE I WAS SO BAD AT AREA/PERIMETER