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Alex73 [517]
3 years ago
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Two Boys are building a skateboard ramp. They want the ramp to be 3 feet tall and 5 feet long. One of them thinks that they can

use a piece of plywood that is 4 feet long to cover the top of the frame.
This is one of theirs work.

a2 + b2 = c2
32 + b2 = 52
9 + b2 = 25
b2 = 16
b = 16−−√
b = 4

Why is his reasoning incorrect? Explain.


How long does the piece of plywood have to be to cover the top of the frame of the skateboard ramp? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a foot. Show your work.

Another boys parents bought a 10 foot piece of plywood for him and his friend to use to cover the top of the frame. Draw and label a ramp they could create. Justify your work using the Pythagorean Theorem.
Draw
Mathematics
1 answer:
Delicious77 [7]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

The answer is below

Step-by-step explanation:

A triangle is a polygon with three sides and three angles. Types of triangles are acute, obtuse, scalene, isosceles, equilateral and right angled triangle.

Pythagoras theorem states that for a right angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square of the remaining two sides.

The ramp has the form of a triangle. The height of the ramp is the vertical side of a triangle, the top of the frame is the hypotenuse while the length of the ramp is the base side of the triangle.

Let the hypotenuse be b Hence:

b² = 3² + 5²

b² = 9 + 25

b² = 34

b = 5.83 feet

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