HELP NEED HELP! Choose the similar triangles that have a hypotenuse defined by the equation

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belka [17]

I believe it is C because it I s bigger but not to big of a amount please tell me if I am wrong

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3 years ago

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nika2105 [10]

Let's call the distance from the beach to the playground x.
Let's call the distance from the stand to the parking lot z.
Let's call the base of the biggest triangle in the picture (from the parking lot to the left) y.

Recall the pythagorean theorem: the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.

There are three right triangles we can work with.

Triangle with sides 48, x and z. Here z is the hypotenuse so we get the equation $x^{2} + 48^{2} = z^{2}$

Triangle with sides 27, x and y. Here y is the hypotenuse so we get $27^{2} + x^{2} = y^{2}$

Triangle with sides z, y and (48+27). Here (48+27) is the hypotenuse so we get $y^{2} + z^{2} = (27+48)^{2}$ . That is, $y^{2} + z^{2} = 5625$

We have 3 equations and 3 unknowns (x, y and z). So let's take the last equation: $y^{2} + z^{2} = 5625$ and replace $z^{2}$ and $y^{2}$ using expressions that contain an expression in terms of x from the first two equations we came up with.

That gives us: $48^{2} + x^{2} + x^{2} + 27^{2} =5625$ which we solve for x as follows:

$2 x^{2} + 3033 =5625
2x^{2} =2592
 x^{2} =1296
x=36$

Now that we know x we can substitute 36 for x into the equation $48^{2} + x^{2} = z^{2}$ and solve for z as follows:
$48^{2} + 36^{2} = z^{2} 
2304+1296=z^{2} 
3600=z^{2} 
z=60$

This means that the distance from the beach to the parking lot is 36 m and the distance from the stand to the parking lot is 60 m.

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3 years ago

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Write a function rule that represents D less than five is P

GarryVolchara [31]

the answer is

p = 5 - d

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3 years ago

Change 2 hours and 36 mins to a mixed number

defon

You know you have two hours which will be the whole number. Then you take 36min and put it over 60min (total number of min in an hour) and you simplify by 6 to get 6/10 which can be simplified again to 3/5 so your final mixed number is
2 and 3/5 hours

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3 years ago

22. One kilometer is approximately 0.62 mile. What fraction represents this length?

bixtya [17]

Answer:

One kilometer is $\frac{31}{50}$ miles