Engineers plan to construct an aqueduct to transport water from the top of a ridge to farmland. A portion of the project is comp

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Engineers plan to construct an aqueduct to transport water from the top of a ridge to farmland. A portion of the project is comp

lete. Find the length of the entire aqueduct.

Mathematics

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Harlamova29_29 [7] · Answer 1 · 2022-09-25T22:58:29+03:00

The length of the aqueduct is 13 km.
My reasoning for this is because the inner triangle is in perfect ratio to the outer triangle and the inner edge has a ratio of 1 to 5 so if you’re searching for the length of the aqueduct you would multiply the corresponding side which is 2.6 km x 5 to which you would get 13