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4. In the Old West, settlers made tents out of a piece of cloth thrown over a clothesline and then secured to the ground with stakes forming an isosceles triangle. How long would the cloth have to be so that the opening of the tent was 6 feet high and 8 feet wide?

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i’m pretty sure it’s 48 i did the math on a piece of
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it would have to be 48 ft I think I'm not sure though sorry

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