Please help me with this geometry question. It’s over similar triangles all you have to do is sent up the other half of the prob
lem. I’ll mark you brainiest if it’s correct and you help.
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Answer:
5 km
Step-by-step explanation:
It helps to draw a diagram.
The triangle between Stamford, Newport, and Amanda's house is a right triangle with one leg of length 12 and hypotenuse 13. The Pythagorean theorem can be used to find the remaining leg:
13² = 12² + (distance to Newport)²
169 -144 = (distance to Newport)²
√25 = 5 = distance to Newport
Newport is 5 km from Amanda's house.
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It can be useful to remember this right triangle. 5-12-13 right triangles show up in a number of algebra and geometry problems.
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answer is shown above, that is a tricky question though.
