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Garrett was given a sculpture that needs to have lights put around the outside only. How many inches of lights will be needed?

Garrett was given a sculpture that needs to have lights put around the outside only-example-1
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Answer:

204 in

Explanation:

I can't really explain this other than that you have to add all the sides and the outside of this shape. For the hypotenuse you use the formula
a^2+b^2=c^2. Now just fill in what you know.


12^2+9^2=x^2\\144+81=x^2\\225=x^2\\x=15

So we have:

length: 12in

base: 9in

hypotenuse: 15in

So now we do 12+15+9+15+12+15+9+15+12+15+9+15+12+15+9+15. Once we do all that we get 204 in.

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